Crossbencherとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• crossbencher

語源

cross-bench +‎ -er

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɹɒsˈbɛnt͡ʃə/

名詞

cross-bencher (複数形 cross-benchers)

1. (politics) A member of the British House of Lords or the Senate of Canada or Australia who sits on a cross-bench, or who proclaims independence or political neutrality.
   • 2007, Bruce Ackerman, "Meritocracy v. Democracy," London Review of Books, vol. 29, no. 5, p. 9,

     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.

Further reading

• “cross-bencher”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.