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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

seat

I.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a chair leg/arm/back/seat

▪ The chair leg has broken.

a seat in parliament (=a position as member of parliament)

▪ If Morgan resigns his seat in Parliament, there will be a bye-election.

aisle seat (=seat next to the aisle)

▪ Would you like a window seat or an aisle seat?

back seat

▪ Finally, Bryant decided to take a back seat and let his son run the company.

book a seat

▪ She booked me a seat on the 9 am flight.

booster seat

bucket seat

car seat

catbird seat

child seat

country seat

ejector seat

first-class passenger/seat/compartment etc

front seat/row

▪ We got there an hour early in order to get seats in the front row.

have a seat on the board

▪ He gave up his seat on the board after 40 years' service.

love seat

passenger seat

reclining seat/chair

resign your seat (=announce that you will no longer be a member of a parliament, be on a committee etc)

▪ A majority of voters think he should resign his seat in Congress.

seat belt

seating capacity (=how many seats there are in a theatre, hall etc)

▪ The largest hall in the university has a seating capacity of over 1,500.

seating/sleeping arrangements (=plans for where people will sit/sleep)

▪ What are the seating arrangements for dinner?

take a seat (=sit down)

▪ Please take a seat.

the toilet seat

▪ He always left the toilet seat up.

wear a seat belt (=have it around yourself)

window seat

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

back

▪ In the back seat a thin face stared ahead.

▪ LoEshe, who was sitting in the back seat, was shot in the head.

▪ In the back seats, Angus and Sawney.

▪ Hector sits in the back seat of the front row, nearest the door.

▪ Get him in the back seat.

▪ It was also a year when investment bankers took a back seat.

▪ One of Thorpey's boys was helping the boyo I'd given the forearm to into the back seat.

▪ He reeled away as Barnabas was dragged into the back seat and muzzled.

driving

▪ What in the world would the company be like in a few years' time if such people were in the driving seat?

▪ Back in the driving seat for the first time in 40 years the memories came flooding back.

▪ Once Smith's penalty goal had cut the Cambridge lead to two points Oxford appeared to be in the driving seat.

▪ Then she tried to heave herself up on to the driving seat but couldn't manage without Dad's help.

▪ Voice over Paul sells the Mini driving seats for around five hundred pounds.

▪ Bullock found himself in the driving seat after Davies was forced to play sideways out of a ditch.

▪ Kev sat with eyes closed in the driving seat.

empty

▪ If you are going to reach people through the media, never have many empty seats.

▪ They were sitting in the front row, talking to each other over two empty seats.

▪ The many empty seats in the chamber attested to the opposition the proposals will receive as they are debated in coming weeks.

▪ First off, there were a good number of empty seats.

▪ The questioner should move to an empty seat as far away as possible.

▪ Primo waves his hand at his own reflection and that of the empty seat on the opposite side of the aisle.

▪ Her bêtenoire eased his long frame into the empty seat across the aisle.

front

▪ But the man who got into the front seat was Keith Hanger, an escaped prisoner wanted in connection with a murder.

▪ Helen and Mona and Callie bobbed on the springy front seat with Ralph.

▪ A few minutes later she slumped back into the front seat of the Granada.

▪ Head restraints have been required in the front seats of cars since 1969.

▪ The bloke who'd wanted to get on with it started to climb out of the front seat.

▪ He gets into the front seat without asking me.

▪ For front or rear seat use.

▪ The passenger in the front seat opened fire, he said, hitting the men.

hot

▪ City player-manager Peter Reid, still a rookie in the hot seat, has done a fine job since replacing Howard Kendall.

▪ Wilkinson and Manion will be in the hot seat.

▪ He was in the hot seat for more than three hours.

▪ There are as many as five coaches currently on the hot seat.

▪ The hot car seats stung the children's bare legs and made them cry out in protest.

▪ Because there is no way I would want to be on the hot seat Smith now finds himself.

▪ Tips Always address the person in the hot seat by the name of the character you have chosen.

▪ That mix-up was just one of several election problems that put then-Registrar of Voters Germaine Wong on the hot seat.

marginal

▪ In Cambridge, there was a campaign to persuade students to register in the city, which was a marginal Conservative seat.

▪ One of the country's two most marginal seats, Brecon and Radnor, also declares today.

▪ The Prime Minister rounded off his campaign by visiting two Tory marginal seats in south London.

▪ Mr Devlin's constituency was a marginal seat before Parliament was dissolved last week, having a majority of 774.

▪ I won a marginal seat and have held it on five successive occasions.

▪ In the 1979 and 1983 elections there were examples of locally popular candidates holding their marginal seats against the national swing.

▪ Yet London contains around 25 Labour-winnable marginal seats.

▪ But it produced critical evidence about how different designs of tax would hit marginal seats and heartland Tory ones.

parliamentary

▪ In 1942 she married James Hoy who gained the Leith parliamentary seat for Labour in the 1945 general election.

▪ He subsequently fought and held his parliamentary seat against his former party.

▪ Shevardnadze was expected to set about forming a coalition among some of the 36 parties which had contested parliamentary seats.

▪ Hannington unsuccessfully contested parliamentary seats in 1929, 1931, 1934, and 1950.

▪ The Alliance were briefly the controlling party in local government and just missed taking the Parliamentary seat at the 1987 election.

▪ As events were to demonstrate, eleven parliamentary seats or a difference of twenty-two votes in a parliamentary division were at stake.

▪ Election results Mahathir's coalition won 127 parliamentary seats, thereby securing its two-thirds majority.

▪ The socialists looked set to lose 200 or more of their 270 parliamentary seats.

rear

▪ The rear end of the console can be detached in order to transform the two individual rear seats into a bench accommodating three.

▪ There were eight empty liquor cartons tilted and wedged across the rear seat.

▪ He climbed into the rear seat of the ford.

▪ Aide Julie Hart noted that most safety experts have said children usually are safer in the rear seat in a crash.

▪ Headroom isn't such a problem, though, and actual rear seat comfort is very good.

▪ The 60-40 split fold-down rear seats afford the owner even more useful cargo room.

▪ It is easily lifted out from front or rear seat belts.

▪ He rode with Kirilenko in the rear seat of a black Volga.

safe

▪ But, as it was, he could expect to be made Solicitor-General and found a safe seat.

▪ The already safe seat at Wandsworth was divided in 1918 into five safe seats.

▪ He has not been included on the shortlist of 18 hopefuls for this supposedly safe Tory seat.

▪ The already safe seat at Wandsworth was divided in 1918 into five safe seats.

▪ It went down a treat with the matrons in safe seats like South-west Surrey.

▪ Given that most seats are safe seats for one party or another, this selection is usually tantamount to election.

▪ It will increase citizens' control over their elected representatives, by abolishing safe seats.

▪ I shall be in London, and my vote is in Taunton, a safe Tory seat.

vacant

▪ His vacant seat on the panel was filled, naturally enough, by William Harrison.

▪ She pointed to a vacant seat which was at the end of a row near the gangway.

■ NOUN

belt

▪ The sign comes on and Paul does up John's seat belt.

▪ Basu tried to stop them, her arm entangled in the seat belt.

▪ They can be secured by an adult lap and diagonal seat belt or a child harness.

▪ Pat got into the car, buckled the seat belt, folded her arms tight to her chest.

▪ Despite the fact he was wearing his seat belt he was hurled forward.

▪ And, she does not force her children to wear seat belts.

▪ In the short term the effect of the new seat belt legislation will be closely monitored.

bucket

▪ These are the colours of lines on Beck's map and also sometimes of station trims and new station bucket seats.

▪ Sherman and Maria are sitting in their tan leather bucket seats staring right at them.

▪ Even multimillionaires don't like getting blood all over their soft, beige leather bucket seats.

car

▪ Ensure you use the correct fitting kit for your make and model of car seat.

▪ When it came time to get a car seat, I looked up that category.

▪ The hot car seats stung the children's bare legs and made them cry out in protest.

▪ Officers found used hypodermic needles in a trailer in the backyard next to an infant car seat.

▪ Some baby seats can be converted into car seats for older children.

▪ Miguel told him, picking a spot opposite the car seat for the desk.

▪ Boots have stopped selling car seats but say they will offer further information to people who've bought the Rainbow seat.

▪ He thought about hiding it in the car seat, but Firebug was always moving the thing around.

love

▪ Helen bought her love seat, a sky blue velveteen fold-out, and also her bridge table.

▪ With mock surprise, he settled into the love seat, draping his arms along its top.

▪ And maybe a love seat too, that folded out to a bed, in case anyone wanted to stay.

▪ But he has no plans to replace the sofa and love seat Roberts left behind.

passenger

▪ They sat side by side in the double passenger seat, watching me as I approached.

▪ I got out of the passenger seat and turned to tell the driver she might as well go back to the airport.

▪ The compartment under the passenger seat in the front, right?

▪ His car was released to his fiancee, who was riding in the passenger seat and was sober, Ditzenberger said.

▪ As she did so she noticed a second man, who peered with interest from the passenger seat of the utility.

▪ Sarna said Miller was riding in the car when the driver lost control and crashed, throwing Miller from the passenger seat.

▪ Curtis settled himself behind the wheel and laid the empty can on the passenger seat.

ringside

▪ Meg had a ringside seat to research her latest role as a tough boxing coach.

▪ They were given ringside seats because of their devotion to Keiko.

▪ It was the first advertised air tour and the price included a ringside seat and hotel accommodation.

▪ You've got a ringside seat.

senate

▪ For the 100 Senate seats, there were 47 two-member counties and three members each for Warsaw and Katowice counties.

▪ Some 78 individuals presented their nomination papers for the presidency, 18 for the vice-presidency, and 265 for 24 Senate seats.

▪ He tried to shake up the race by resigning his Senate seat and shedding his tie.

window

▪ He paused by the window seat, a replica of one he had noticed at the other end of the gallery.

▪ They supply fresh insights, infuse you with energy and give up the window seat without complaint.

▪ Breathlessly she flung herself down on the window seat.

▪ Paul offers Bill the window seat.

▪ Clarisa passed him over to me at the window seat so she could pull out a change of clothes.

▪ Cara sat on a deep window seat, Laura beside her.

▪ Marge sat down on the window seat, and tucked her hair into the bandanna.

■ VERB

fill

▪ People began filling up the empty seats.

▪ San Marcos then held a special election to fill the open seat, for which Thibadeau campaigned and lost.

▪ He filled 80, 000 seats in a soccer stadium.

▪ These bargains are designed to fill airline seats or hotel rooms that would otherwise sit empty.

▪ And he knew he was the only one of them who could truly justify filling that empty seat.

▪ The Conservative margin is expected to be reduced to one after two upcoming elections are held to fill vacated seats.

gain

▪ In 1942 she married James Hoy who gained the Leith parliamentary seat for Labour in the 1945 general election.

▪ Since Sanders generally votes Democratic, the Democrats need to gain an additional 20 seats to win control of the House.

▪ Labour had gained over 130 seats, and for the first time in history it was the strongest party in the state.

▪ The winner would gain a seat on the City Council and would automatically be named mayor.

▪ The next grouping in this hastily cooked-up Assembly gained only 13 seats.

▪ Republicans gained two seats in the Senate and now enjoy a 55-45 majority in the Senate.

▪ Labour scored its biggest successes in London, where it gained a dozen seats on an above-average swing of 3.4 percent.

▪ Labour gained one seat but lost two in the by-election following appointment of aldermen.

hold

▪ Many councils are controlled by their political opponents, even in areas where Conservatives hold parliamentary seats with quite large majorities.

▪ The group of smaller Catholic parties allied with Berlusconi hold 34 seats.

▪ He subsequently fought and held his parliamentary seat against his former party.

▪ Republicans, at the moment, hold 41 seats while Democrats have 37.

▪ He was returned for Aldershot in 1970 and held the seat until 1997, when he did not seek re-election.

▪ The next largest party holds only 55 seats.

▪ Mr McLaughlin believes SinnFein will hold the seat in the by-election, which is likely to be held on Thursday October 21.

▪ Fini was the most determined opponent of Dini during his government, and his party holds 106 seats.

lose

▪ Despite losing the seat he has held for nine years Mr Lee managed to increase the Tory vote.

▪ While Brown lost eight seats in a heavily Republican year, Lockyer only lost one.

▪ Khan lost his seat in the 1991 elections, when a Hindu revivalist wave swept his constituency.

▪ If Republicans lose 21 seats, the Democrats will regain control of the House.

▪ Mr Patten lost his seat of Bath despite being the architect of Mr Major's 21-seat majority.

▪ They say the Tories are still looking for some one to blame for losing the seat.

▪ Second-term presidents historically lose their luster and energy by year six, and their party loses seats in Congress.

reserve

▪ Seat Reservations On all TransPennine services you are advised to reserve your seat in advance to ensure a comfortable journey.

▪ The Fat Controller had reserved good seats at the front of the stalls.

▪ It asked us to reserve our seats as soon as possible for this famous work by Shakespeare.

▪ But none of you has any choice because you all have reserved seats.

▪ Each day her youngsters have to reserve a seat at the table and no prior reservation means no meal.

▪ I must say it was an awful lot of rot, although we had reserved seats ....

resign

▪ On the defensive, Dole resigned his Kansas Senate seat on June 11.

▪ He tried to shake up the race by resigning his Senate seat and shedding his tie.

▪ He intended to resign his seat if he won the election.

▪ Garcia resigned his seat in January 1990, shortly before the two were sentenced to three years' imprisonment.

▪ Vice chairman Alan Noble resigned his seat on the board because of business commitments, but that wasn't the last of him.

▪ He resigned his South Dorset seat at the 1987 general election.

resume

▪ To escape it he pushed Iron Josh back into his chair and resumed his own seat.

▪ Madame Olenska rose, wound it up and returned to the fire, but without resuming her seat.

▪ They resumed their seats and Owen slipped away into a tide of music and colour.

▪ Winnie resumed her seat and her knitting.

▪ By the time Michele returned and resumed his seat she was sipping her wine, her plate almost empty.

▪ If your opponent interrupts you, resume your seat while he is speaking.

sit

▪ Compare the statement that he sat in a seat iii the circle.

▪ Grunt Six and the other captain sat on the bench seat facing forward.

▪ Jean sat back in her seat feeling numb and sad.

▪ I sat in my seat watching little white spots drift in front of me.

▪ The chief innovation however, were the 32 passengers who sat along wooden seats at each side.

▪ Williams just sat in his seat behind him, glaring.

▪ With another wistful sigh she sat back in her seat.

▪ She sat in the same seat during the summer when she was in his Level Two class.

take

▪ That her family had taken a back seat in her life.

▪ On Jan. 24 it was reported that 28 members of the Interim Legislative Assembly had taken their seats.

▪ The young man took the seat behind the cold metal desk and began to fire questions at me.

▪ He asked me to take a seat and listen to some music he would put on.

▪ The Labor Party, led by Shimon Peres, took 44 seats.

▪ But she didn't want to take a seat.

▪ I took the seat across from them in the booth.

win

▪ The separatists had won no seats at the last elections, in 1986.

▪ But in 1986 he won a seat in the House, and in 1994 was elected to the Senate.

▪ They lay Labour 4-7 to win most seats, Graham Robb's stable 5-4.

▪ The party won no seats in 1990, but regained forty-nine seats in 1994.

▪ In 1929 he won his Woodvale seat which he held until his death in 1949.

▪ NOWsupported candidates won several of those seats.

▪ The parliament was formed for those who won seats in the 1990 general election.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

back seat driver

be (sitting) in the catbird seat

be seated

▪ Helen was more than pleased to be seated beside Chris. She'd always wanted to meet him.

▪ Jan was seated near the door.

▪ John was seated on my left.

▪ Please be seated so we can start the meeting.

▪ The meal cannot start until everyone is seated.

▪ Example 3: Four girls were seated round a table, each writing individually.

▪ Once she was seated, he put his arms around her, cradling her fair head against his chest.

▪ Once the men are seated in the living room off the inside patio, they try to lure the children into conversation.

▪ She bade Demeter be seated and herself offered her honey-sweet wine, but the goddess would not taste it.

▪ She was seated on the Woolpack which was tied like a saddle to her Grey Horse.

▪ The other night, Deena was seated at a well-known, busy place near the Potomac River.

▪ They were seated on the far side, some in chairs, some leaning on the desk.

▪ To / two / too: There were two too many to be seated, too.

fly by the seat of your pants

get/put bums on seats

▪ When you can put bums on seats, then you can come and tell me what flights you want to travel on.

in the hot seat

▪ City player-manager Peter Reid, still a rookie in the hot seat, has done a fine job since replacing Howard Kendall.

▪ He was in the hot seat for more than three hours.

▪ Put them in the hot seat and question then to find out.

▪ This will help the person in the hot seat to become more relaxed and confident in the role of the character.

▪ Tips Always address the person in the hot seat by the name of the character you have chosen.

▪ We can put Ant in the hot seat to find out.

▪ Wilkinson and Manion will be in the hot seat.

marginal seat/constituency

▪ Another factor not taken into account before the election was the number of expatriate Tory voters registered in marginal constituencies.

▪ Hand in hand with this measure goes an equally bold re-focusing of Labour's strategy concerning marginal constituencies.

▪ In the 1979 and 1983 elections there were examples of locally popular candidates holding their marginal seats against the national swing.

▪ Mr Devlin's constituency was a marginal seat before Parliament was dissolved last week, having a majority of 774.

▪ One of the country's two most marginal seats, Brecon and Radnor, also declares today.

▪ She said Darlington had been chosen because it was a marginal constituency.

▪ The Prime Minister rounded off his campaign by visiting two Tory marginal seats in south London.

▪ There is a core vote-a traditional solid Labour support-in every constituency in the land, including marginal seats.

on the edge of your seat

▪ The movie's last scenes kept us on the edge of our seats.

▪ Chesarynth perched on the edge of her seat, fearing a poisoned needle in the cushions.

▪ From the moment he took the rostrum, Gergiev had his musicians tensely perched on the edge of their seats.

▪ He was waiting for her answer, not exactly on the edge of his seat, though.

▪ This dramatic opening had me on the edge of my seat!

▪ This keeps you on the edge of your seat.

▪ We're on the edge of our seats.

orchestra section/seats

resume your seat/place/position

▪ Will the delegates please resume their seats?

▪ By the time Michele returned and resumed his seat she was sipping her wine, her plate almost empty.

▪ If your opponent interrupts you, resume your seat while he is speaking.

▪ Madame Olenska rose, wound it up and returned to the fire, but without resuming her seat.

▪ Mr Scott resumed his place, a look of quiet satisfaction on his face.

▪ They resumed their seats and Owen slipped away into a tide of music and colour.

▪ Winnie resumed her seat and her knitting.

ringside seat

▪ It was the first advertised air tour and the price included a ringside seat and hotel accommodation.

▪ Meg had a ringside seat to research her latest role as a tough boxing coach.

▪ They were given ringside seats because of their devotion to Keiko.

▪ You've got a ringside seat.

take a back seat

▪ Women have often been forced to take a back seat in society.

▪ And very generally, the interests of lenders in New York take a back seat to the interests of the corporate borrowers.

▪ But when they were introduced, everything upstairs had to take a back seat.

▪ He notes, however, that economic considerations are taking a back seat to budget negotiations.

▪ If you can't agree to disagree, then take a back seat and let others have their way on this occasion.

▪ It was also a year when investment bankers took a back seat.

▪ Many feel reluctant to take a back seat and allow their children to enjoy the special attractiveness of the teens and twenties.

▪ Mr Peters has now taken a back seat.

▪ That her family had taken a back seat in her life.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ 'Slow down!' yelled Ben from the back seat.

▪ a seat on the board of directors

▪ a chair with a broken seat

▪ comfortable padded theater seats

▪ He leaned back in his seat and lit a cigarette.

▪ Our seats were right at the front of the airplane.

▪ Republicans hold 235 of the 435 seats in the House.

▪ There are two seats left in the back row.

▪ There was blood and broken glass all over the front seats.

▪ When we arrived, every seat was filled, so we stood at the back.

▪ Who left the toilet seat up?

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ Communists catapulted from 45 to 157 seats in the 450-seat Duma to dominate a fractious chamber divided by eight political parties.

▪ Forza Italia has 110 seats, and Berlusconi has frequently changed his mind about whether Dini should stay in office.

▪ He believes they will win in the new town areas where they already have the local council seats sewn up.

▪ His left arm was jammed tight against the side of the seat.

▪ It was also a year when investment bankers took a back seat.

▪ Richard Corish held a seat in Wexford from 1921 until his death in 1945.

▪ There were three seats in our region, the Southeast.

II.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

back

▪ The Captain was seated with his back to the door.

▪ Hansel seats himself on its back and asks his sister to join him.

▪ He could just see his Mercedes with Dillon seated in the back.

car

▪ The original cars seated 69, but the new one seated only 64.

chair

▪ When he had settled her, gently and with professional competence, he seated himself in the chair opposite.

desk

▪ She seated herself at the desk, relocated a floral display and smiled as the first patient walked into the room.

man

▪ Built in 1871, and extended in 1880, the Mess Room in its final form could seat some 2,000 men.

people

▪ A polished mahogany table, big enough to seat twenty people, ran down the middle of it.

▪ The restaurant seats 24, with three expansive rectangular marble tables each seating eight people.

▪ It was used for plays and mimes and seated about 5000 people.

▪ There was seating for hundreds of people, possibly thousands.

▪ Zeppelin may later produce a larger ship seating 40 people.

▪ Large dining space to seat 24 people.

room

▪ The Webster Room, which can seat around 60, is used for art exhibitions, talks, seminars and group meetings.

▪ The house has plenty of large rooms and places to seat a sizable banquet party.

▪ Beyond that was the locked door, and beyond that a small handsome dining room to seat eight.

▪ Quiet classical music wafts through the room, which can seat about 40 at an assortment of tables for two and four.

table

▪ It was full of long tables that seated from six and eight to a dozen or more.

▪ They dream of a great castle called Camelot and a round table that could seat 150 knights.