Backbencher
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Backbencher is a noun meaning (education) A student who does not perform well, especially one who sits at the back of the classroom.
Meaning
(education) A student who does not perform well, especially one who sits at the back of the classroom.
More Meanings
- (sports) A member of a team who does not usually play, but who is held in reserve.
- (by extension) Someone who does not play an active role in a process.
- (politics) A Member of Parliament who does not have cabinet rank, and who therefore sits on one of the backbenches or in one of the back rows of the legislature.
Example Sentences
When I was in a primary school, I was a backbencher student.
By the second scrimmage of the season he was a backbencher, suspended from the game for disciplinary reasons.
Classmates naturally turn to look at the backbencher, who must acknowledge his presence, with some embarrassment.
The teacher also gets an idea of the "backbenchers" or the slow students since he can see which desk is still to send an answer.
Word Forms
- backbenchers
- back-bencher
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include frontbencher, front-bencher, crossbencher, cross-bencher, benchership, bencher.
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