1. A secondary or inferior position or status
   "tennis has had to take a backseat while his work is so demanding" 
2. A seat at the back of a vehicle (especially the seat at the back of an automobile)

Derived forms: backseats

Type of: inferiority, lower rank, lower status, seat

Encyclopedia: Backseat

• class fellow
• class Filicinae
• class Filicopsida
• class Flagellata
• class Gasteromycetes
• class Gasteropoda
• class Gastromycetes
• class Gastropoda
• class Ginkgophytina
• class Ginkgopsida
• class Gnetopsida
• class Gymnospermae
• class Hemiascomycetes
• class Hepaticae
• class Hepaticopsida
• class Heterokontae
• class Hexapoda
• class Hirudinea
• class Holothuroidea
• class Hyalospongiae
• class Hydrozoa
• class Hymenomycetes
• class Insecta
• class Lamellibranchia
• class Larvacea