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substitutes' bench

substitutes' bench noun: the bench on which the players sit when they are not in action.

Noun

substitutes' bench (plural substitutes' benches)

  1. The bench on which the players sit when they are not in action.
    • Oleg Blokhin's side lost the talismanic Andriy Shevchenko to the substitutes' bench because of a knee injury but still showed enough to put England through real turmoil in spells.2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport
    Synonyms:
    subs' bench

Synonyms of substitutes' bench

Forms of substitutes' bench

pluralsubstitutes' benches

Questions about substitutes' bench

What does substitutes' bench mean?
Substitutes' bench means the bench on which the players sit when they are not in action.
What part of speech is substitutes' bench?
Substitutes' bench is a noun.
What is the plural of substitutes' bench?
The plural of substitutes' bench is substitutes' benches.

Words near substitutes' bench in the dictionary

  1. substitutee
  2. substitutees
  3. substituter
  4. substituters
  5. substitutes
  6. substitutes' bench
  7. substitutes' benches
  8. substituteth
  9. substitutibility
  10. substitutible
  11. substituting

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