bencher Definition
bencher (ben′c̸her)
noun
a person who sits on a bench, as a judge or member of the British Parliament
bencher Usage Examples
Converse of object
- become: A specialist in family and public law, she became a bencher in 1997.
- elect: In 1850 he was elected a bencher of the Inner Temple.
Adjective modifier
- back: The back bencher argued the two sets of papers were in fact from the same period.
- front: The Editor of the Spectator's career as a front bencher has been brilliant, brief and brusque.
- own: Some of his own Back Benchers are sympathetic to the withdrawal from Europe strategy.
- honorary: Any person of sufficient distinction may be elected an honorary bencher, despite not being a member of the Inn or even a lawyer.
- Conservative: Scargill was seen to have been right all along and disapproval of the Government's policy came even from Conservative back benchers.
- ordinary: In these days, there are over 150 ordinary benchers, elected for life by the Council.
Noun used with modifier
- front: The Sunday Times has learned of a series of lunches and dinners held at secret locations between shadow front benchers and captains of industry.
- back: Mud Slinger General in Chief of the Tory back benchers earned David Shaw ( Ex Con.
- cross: A search through the internet quickly reveals that Lord Stokes sits as a cross bencher in the House of Lords.
- labor: Labor back benchers are preoccupied with the death throes of Tony Blair and the dynamics of succession, not the dynamics of Scottish secession.
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