Wiktionary
n. 1 A seat among a group of seats in an enclosure, as at a theater or stadium. 2 (context idiomatic English) A favorable vantage point.
WordNet
n. a special seat in a theater or grandstand box
the driver's seat on a coach; "an armed guard sat in the box with the driver" [syn: box]
Usage examples of "box seat".
Seeing her passion, he had arranged a box seat for a special August performance of the London Symphony.
As the first shots of the war were being fired across the desert wasteland, NSA had a box seat.
If a man like Moncrieff wanted to watch a game, he could afford a box seat behind the Reds’.
When I booked my place at the coach office I had had 'Box Seat' written against the entry, and had given the book-keeper half-a-crown.
Thank Balzac for what he's done, stay friends, send him box seat tickets for your first Carnegie Hall show.
The arched openings of the double box seat at Jerry's upper right had now been decorated with thickly draped red, white and blue bunting and a picture of George Washington.