Definition of Backbenchers

1. Noun. (plural of backbencher) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Backbenchers

1. backbencher [n] - See also: backbencher

Lexicographical Neighbors of Backbenchers

backaction
backake
backal
backarapper
backarc
backarcs
backare
backband
backbands
backbeat
backbeats
backbench
backbencher
backbenchers (current term)
backbenches
backbend
backbends
backbit
backbite
backbiter
backbiters
backbites
backbiting
backbitings
backbitten
backblast
backblasts
backblock

Literary usage of Backbenchers

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

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"Apart from Mr. Baldwin he has few friends even among his colleagues, and the backbenchers hardly know him at all, for he is not easily approachable in the ..."

2. Lord Lothian and Anglo-American Relations, 1939-1940 by David Reynolds (1983)
"... such feelings were particularly associated with Chamberlain, his Treasury advisers and Tory backbenchers, together with certain senior Foreign Office ..."

3. Magna Charta for America: James Abercromby's "An Examination of the Acts of by Jack Phillip Greene, James Abercromby, Charles F. Mullett, Edward C. Papenfuse (1986)
"He seems to have been one of those dependable backbenchers who rarely spoke and usually voted with the administration, though he followed Grenville into ..."

4. Politics of Compromise: NATO and AWACS by Arnold L. Tessmer (1995)
"... political systems can afford the risk of seeking funds for $75 million airplanes without a convincing argument for backbenchers and the electorate. ..."

5. Conflict and Growth in Africa by Jeni Klugman, Bilin Neyapti, Frances Stewart (1999)
"Indeed. in 1969 and 1974 only about one- quarter of the parliamentary backbenchers were re-elected. "Political life remained remarkably open and its press ..."

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