backbencher

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back·bench·er /ˌbækˈbentʃə◂ $ -ər◂/ noun [countable] British English  PGPan ordinary British Member of Parliament who does not have an important official position 后座议员，普通议员〔指不担任要职的英国议会议员〕

Examples from the Corpus

backbencher• Heseltine's campaign team, having been canvassing backbenchers for several weeks, had already developed a considerable momentum.• The Charter is up for renewal in 1996, and there are ministers to be lobbied and Conservative backbenchers to be wooed.• It may well have been the desire of many, perhaps a majority, of the Cabinet and the Conservative backbenchers.• Some 30 Conservatives abstained, as did a significant number of Labour backbenchers.• Opposition backbenchers, as in the House, make their general case against the bill.• And only his own backbenchers can do that.• The Government refuses to hold a national poll despite pressure from its own backbenchers and senior party figures.• I was also under no illusion that some backbenchers on our side were nervous about the policy.

back·bench·er nounChineseSyllable  

not Corpus who of an ordinary British Parliament Member does

backbencher
back‧bench‧er /ˌbækˈbentʃə◂ $ -ər◂/ noun [countable] British English
an ordinary British Member of Parliament who does not have an important official position

back·bench·erBrE /ˌbækˈbentʃə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˌbækˈbentʃər/ 🔊 noun(in the House of Commons in Britain and in certain other parliaments) a member who sits in the rows of seats at the back, and who does not have an important position in the government or the Opposition （英国和其他某些国家议会的）后座议员，普通议员，后排议员  ➡  compare frontbencher