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Definition: Backbencher |
BackbencherNoun1. A member of the House of Commons of Great Britain who is not a party leader. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In most parliamentary systems, backbenchers individually do not have much power to influence government policy. However, they are important in providing services to their constituents and in relaying the opinions of their constituents. In addition, backbenchers collectively can sometimes exercise considerable power especially in cases where the policies of the government are unpopular or when a governing party is internally split.
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| "Backbencher" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.18% of the time. "Backbencher" is used about 71 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.18% | 69 | 40,280 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.82% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 71 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Beginning with "backbencher": Backbencher-of-the-year. | |
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| Language | Translations for "backbencher"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | deputet i thjeshtë. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | депутат от задните банки. (various references) | |
Chinese | 下议院普通议员. (various references) | |
Czech | poslanec (congressman, deputy, member of parliament). (various references) | |
Dutch | backbencher. (various references) | |
Farsi | عضوهیلت قانونگذاری . (various references) | |
German | Hinterbänkler (backbenchers). (various references) | |
Korean | 초 의원. (various references) | |
Manx | cooyl-vinkeyr. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ackbencherbay.(various references) | |
Romanian | deputat britanic de rând. (various references) | |
Russian | рядовой член парламента (back-bencher). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | običan član parlamenta. (various references) | |
Swedish | icke-minister. (various references) | |
Turkish | yönetimde görev almayan parlementer, kıdemsiz parlamento üyesi (back bencher, bencher). (various references) | |
Ukranian | рядовий член парламенту. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "backbencher": backbenchers. (additional references) | |
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"Backbencher" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bakbencher. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-c-c-e-e-h-k-n-r" | |
-2 letters: backbench. | |
-3 letters: bechance. | |
-4 letters: bencher, bracken, brechan, chancre, checker, hearken, recheck. | |
-5 letters: achene, backer, banker, beaker, berake, branch, breach, breech, cancer, canker, careen, chance, chebec, cranch, creche, hackee, hacker, hanker, harken, nabber, necker, rebeck, recane. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-b-c-c-e-e-h-k-n-r" | |
+1 letter: backbenchers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 63 6B 62 65 6E 63 68 65 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01100011 01101011 01100010 01100101 01101110 01100011 01101000 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a c k b e n c h e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0063 006B 0062 0065 006E 0063 0068 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3667697768718069747184 |
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