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单词 bencher
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Definition of bencher in English:

bencher

noun ˈbɛn(t)ʃəˈbɛn(t)ʃər
Law
  • (in the UK) a senior member of any of the Inns of Court.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A person may be refused permission to sit the entrance exam ‘if he is for any reason considered by the benchers to be unsuitable for admission’.
    • Entrance to the Inns' degree course is by examination, though this is not open to anyone in an occupation ‘which, in the opinion of the benchers of King's Inns, is incompatible with the position of a student seeking to be called to the Bar’.
    • In one case, in 1691, the benchers of the Inner Temple ordered that the gate between the two areas be bricked up.
    • He then became an eminent lawyer and bencher of the Inner Temple.

Rhymes

adventure, censure, dementia, front-bencher, trencher, venture, wencher
 
 

Definition of bencher in US English:

bencher

nounˈbɛn(t)ʃərˈben(t)SHər
Law
  • (in the UK) a senior member of any of the Inns of Court.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In one case, in 1691, the benchers of the Inner Temple ordered that the gate between the two areas be bricked up.
    • A person may be refused permission to sit the entrance exam ‘if he is for any reason considered by the benchers to be unsuitable for admission’.
    • He then became an eminent lawyer and bencher of the Inner Temple.
    • Entrance to the Inns' degree course is by examination, though this is not open to anyone in an occupation ‘which, in the opinion of the benchers of King's Inns, is incompatible with the position of a student seeking to be called to the Bar’.
 
 
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