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📖 Определения и значения для слова seat

📒 a place where you can sit, for example a chair

  • She sat back in her seat.
  • He put his shopping on the seat behind him.
  • Please take a seat (= sit down).

📒 with the number of seats mentioned

  • (British English) a ten-seater minibus
  • an all-seater stadium (= in which nobody is allowed to stand)

📒 the part of a chair, etc. on which you actually sit

  • a steel chair with a plastic seat

📒 a place where you pay to sit in a plane, train, theatre, etc.

  • Call the theatre box office to book your seats.
  • To reserve a seat, visit our website.
  • There are no seats left on that flight.

📒 an official position as a member of a parliament, council, committee, etc.

  • a seat on the city council/in Parliament/in Congress
  • Republicans currently hold 51 seats in the Senate.
  • The majority of seats on the board will be held by business representatives.

📒 a place where people are involved in a particular activity, especially a city that has a university or the offices of a government

  • Washington is the seat of government of the US.
  • a university town renowned as a seat of learning

📒 a large house in the country that belongs to a member of the upper class

  • For the first two years of her life she lived at Ickworth, the family seat in Sussex.

📒 the part of the body on which a person sits

📒 the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person’s seat

📒 to have an advantage over other people or be in control of a situation

  • Canada is in the catbird seat as an energy powerhouse.

📒 to be the person in control of a situation

📒 used to refer to the number of people who attend a show, talk, etc., especially when emphasizing the need or desire to attract a large number

  • They're not bothered about attracting the right audience—they just want bums on seats.

📒 to act without careful thought and without a plan that you have made in advance, hoping that you will be lucky and be successful

📒 very excited and giving your full attention to something

  • The game had the crowd on the edge of their seats.
  • I was on the edge of my seat waiting to find out what happened next.

📒 to allow somebody else to play a more active and important role in a particular situation than you do

  • Many managers take a back seat and leave recruitment to specialists.
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