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Definition of Front bench

1. Noun. Any of the front seats in the House of Commons that are reserved for ministers or former ministers.

Definition of Front bench

1. Noun. (British) In the House of Commons, either of two benches nearest the floor of the chamber, one occupied by the members of the Cabinet and the other by the Shadow Cabinet. ¹

2. Noun. Those Members of Parliament occupying the front benches. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Front Bench

Literary usage of Front bench

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. On Parliamentary Government in England: Its Origin, Development, and by Alpheus Todd (1869)
"In the House of Lords the members of the administration sit on the front bench, on the right of the woolsack ; and the peers who usually vote with them ..."

2. The Life and Correspondence of the Right Hon. Hugh C. E. Childers, 1827-1896 by Edmund Spencer Eardley Childers (1901)
"CHAPTER V. ON THE front bench. 1864-1868. Enters Office as Junior Lord of the Admiralty—Dockyard Accounts and Greenwich Hospital—Promoted to be Secretary to ..."

3. The Teacher's Hand-book of Slöjd: As Practised and Taught at Nääs by Otto Aron Salomon, Carl Nordendahl, Alfred Johansson (1904)
"... vice and the front bench vice. A complete bench (Fig. 5) has both ; one of simpler construction (Fig. 8) has only the back bench vice. ..."

4. Treatise on Architecture, Including the Arts of Construction, Building by William Hosking, Thomas Tredgold, Thomas Young, John Robinson (1867)
"He then returns to the front bench, and sets up the seat 1 ft. 6 in. above the floor, above which he .Fig. 6. sets up a point, 2 ft. 9 in. in height, ..."

5. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1862)
"The front bench is 3 feet wide, walk 2 feet, and back bench 3 feet. All along the front bench run two wooden gutters 9 inches wide by 3 inches deep, ..."

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