[
UK
/bˈækbɛntʃ/
]
NOUN
- any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons
How To Use backbench In A Sentence
- It would almost be better to have no backbench bills at all than the current system, which offers a false glimmer of hope. Times, Sunday Times
- If that doesn't change soon, the mutinous backbench mood could reach boiling point. Times, Sunday Times
- Cameron's amendment would render the proposed backbench business committee "flimsier" than it otherwise could be, he added. Epolitix News
- Labour backbenchers are confident the last tally-ho will soon echo across Britain's countryside.
- But here he is, threatening to go on and on, surrounded by fawning Labour ministers, backbenchers and constituency delegates.
- The wisdom of the retired generals and backbench MPs conjoins.
- Mr. Wyden has been campaigning for such a reform for years from the Democratic backbenches. The Wyden-Ryan Breakthrough
- He said there was a groundswell of opinion among backbenchers, and said he had been involved with a statement released detailing the plans.
- He is the undisputed backbench champion of the well-publicized empty gesture.
- As a mere backbencher I'm not privy to negotiations that go on.
