Word.ws English Dictionary

cross-benchers

cross-benchers is the plural of cross-bencher.

Meaning of cross-bencher

Noun

cross-bencher (plural cross-benchers)

  1. 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.
    • 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.2007, Bruce Ackerman, “Meritocracy v. Democracy”, in London Review of Books, volume 29, number 5, page 9

Questions about cross-benchers

What is cross-benchers the plural of?
Cross-benchers is the plural of cross-bencher.

Words near cross-benchers in the dictionary

  1. cross-beddings
  2. cross-belt sorter
  3. cross-belt sorters
  4. cross-bench
  5. cross-bencher
  6. cross-benchers
  7. cross-benches
  8. cross-birth
  9. cross-births
  10. cross-bit
  11. cross-bite

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cross-benchers (page history and authors); cross-bencher (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cross-benchers.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cross-benchers. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.