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back bench

noun

  1. any of the rows of seats occupied by the backbenchers.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of back bench1

First recorded in 1870–75
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Example Sentences

The GOP showed a deeper, stronger back bench that seems to be missing this year on the Democratic side of the aisle.

All the bed wetters and second guessers are now weighing in from the back bench.

Why is a general so lionized hanging up his uniform for a back-bench position?

But the Virginia congressman has the most to gain from a back-bench revolt.

At thirty-seven he had been sitting in a stuff gown on a back bench in the Court of King's Bench.

Then he indicated the vacant swing-back bench at the far side of the table, and sat down opposite to Cartoner himself.

With the utmost alacrity one big girl from a back bench came rushing to the schoolmistress' assistance.

The luckless form of the youthful Lawkins, pale and scared, rose from a back bench.

The beds were made upon the earthen floor of his tomato-forcing house and under the back bench.

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