| 单词 | safe seat |
| 释义 | > as lemmassafe seat safe seat n. Politics a parliamentary seat which is likely to be easily retained by a political party at an election; cf. sense 12. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [noun] > seat in > likely to be retained safe seat1841 1841 Times 25 Mar. 5/3 Its constituency, by the number of fraudulent votes it embraces, affords a safe seat for Irish law-officers under the present régime. 1891 W. Fraser Disraeli & his Day 491 A material element in the future of Constitutional Government is the non-existence of safe seats. 1939 W. I. Jennings Parliament ii. 27 The influence of a great landowner... May secure nomination by the local Conservative association and so enable the person nominated to acquire a safe seat. 2001 Independent 18 May 8/2 The former Conservative minister controversially ‘parachuted’ into the safe seat of St Helens South. < as lemmas |
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