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In the British parliament, members sit on long seats called benches. The seats at the very front are for the most important people in each party: government ministers on one side, and the top people of the other party on the other side. A frontbencher is one of those people — a minister now, or someone who would be a minister if their party won. Ordinary members sit further back; they are backbenchers. This is British political language, a little formal, the kind you hear on the news. Countries with a parliament built like Britain’s (Australia, for example) use it too. You would not use it for someone sitting in the front row of a classroom or a cinema — though actually, that is exactly the picture the word puts in your head.
前座議員（英國國會）
組成front bench + -er. The -er makes a person-word: someone who belongs on the front bench.
同家族的字
- front benchthe front seats this word is built from
- backbencherthe opposite: an ordinary member who sits further back
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
frontbenchernoun
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governmentpoliticsA Member of Parliament who sits on the front bench, and is typically part of the cabinet.
- Labour frontbencher Louise Haigh (Shadow Transport Secretary for heaven's sake!) initially lambasted TOCs before the handful of specialist rail commentators fell on her tweets and she changed her tune, refocusing her fire on Government.
- Cleverly did not directly respond to the claim from the Labour frontbencher when he later answered her questions.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。