Usually means: Yield priority to someone else.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. take a back seat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. take a back seat: Merriam-Webster
  3. take a back seat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. take a back seat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. take a back seat: Wiktionary
  6. take a back seat: Dictionary.com
  7. Take a Back Seat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  8. Take a back seat: Phrase Finder

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take a back seat: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take a back seat: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (take a back seat)

verb:  (idiomatic) To adopt a position of noninvolvement.
verb:  (idiomatic) To be second to someone or something; to be less important or have a lower priority.

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