Usually means: Secondary position, less control, influence.
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  1. back seat: Merriam-Webster
  2. back seat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. back seat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. back seat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. back-seat: Wordnik
  6. back seat: Wiktionary
  7. back seat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. back seat: Dictionary.com
  9. Back Seat (Of My Jeep): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. back seat: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. back seat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  12. back seat: Merriam-Webster

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  1. back seat: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (back seat)

noun:  Any of the seats in the rear of a vehicle.
noun:  (informal, especially in the expression take a back seat) A lesser or inferior position; a position of deliberate noninvolvement, in which decision-making or leadership is left to others.

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