English - Turkish
Definition of cross-bench in English Turkish dictionary
- crossbench
- {i} bağımsız
- crossbench
- {i} tarafsız
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English - English
Definition of cross-bench in English English dictionary
- A bench placed perpendicular to others, especially certain such benches in the House of Lords on which independent or neutral members traditionally sit
- cross-bencher
- A member of the British House of Lords or the Senate of Canada who sits on a cross-bench, or who proclaims independence or political neutrality
Putting the hereditary nobility to one side, the life peers, and especially the cross-benchers, carry on an older, less narrowly professional tradition of distinguished service: rule by the ‘great and the good’, if not necessarily the best and brightest.
- crossbench
- Of or pertaining to the crossbenches in the UK houses of parliament
Mary Warnock is a philosopher and crossbench peer. ( - The Observer).
- crossbench
- any of the seats in the House of Commons used by members who do not vote regularly with either the Government or the Opposition