front bench

1. 1.

   any of the front seats in the House of Commons that are reserved for ministers or former ministers

   Broaderseat

   United Kingdom

Questions about front bench

What does front bench mean?

front bench means "any of the front seats in the House of Commons that are reserved for ministers or former ministers".

Is front bench a common word?

front bench is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.