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substitutes' benches

substitutes' benches is the plural of substitutes' bench.

Meaning of substitutes' bench

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

Questions about substitutes' benches

What is substitutes' benches the plural of?
Substitutes' benches is the plural of substitutes' bench.

Words near substitutes' benches in the dictionary

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

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