Bench
Bench noun - A public official having authority to decide questions of law.
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Synonyms for Bench
Shelf and bench are semantically related. in thing topic. In some cases you can use "Shelf" instead a noun "Bench", when it comes to topics like large table.
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- Sock in Reaper spends much of his work shift at the Work Bench sleeping on a shelf, much to the chagrin of the store manager.
Source: Professional Slacker -
A little girl on CSI Crime Scene Investigation, who came downstairs to find her relatives butchered and her mother missing, mutely prepares her own breakfast, selects a favorite book from the shelf, and goes outside to sit on a bench in the yard, staring silently into the distance.
Source: Thousand-Yard Stare -
In Real Life, one of the Basic Anthropological Divides is between people who sit at ground level— carpet, tatami, cushion, the ground itself— and people who sit above ground level— chair, bench, snow-house shelf.
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