seat

Noun

seat (plural seats)

1. A place in which to sit.

   There are two hundred seats in this classroom.

2. The part of an object directly involved in sitting.

   Place the seat of your pants on the seat of this chair.

3. A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.

   Our neighbor has a seat at the stock exchange and in congress.

4. The location of a governing body.

   Washington D.C. is the seat of the U.S. government.

4 letters in word "seat": A E S T.

Anagrams of seat:

• ates

• east

• eats

• etas

• sate

• seta

• taes

• teas

Words found within seat:

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• Definitions:
• a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane); "he booked their seats in advance"; "he sat in someone else's place" buttocks: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" show to a seat; assign a seat for; "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith" be able to seat; "The theater seats 2,000" furniture that is designed for sitting on; "there were not enough seats for all the guests" any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit); "he dusted off the seat before sitting down" induct: place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position; "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy" a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised) put a seat on a chair provide with seats; "seat a concert hall" the cloth covering for the buttocks; "the seat of his pants was worn through"
• SEAT is a Spanish automobile manufacturer founded in 1950 and now subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group. The acronym "SEAT" stood for Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo (Spanish Corporation of Touring Cars), and should be pronounced "SEH-aht."
• A traditional figure of speech for a membership on an exchange.
• The sliding seat the rower sits on. Seat also refers to the rower's sequential position in the boat; seat positions are numbered from bow to stern. The rower closest to the bow is the One Seat, the next is the Two Seat, and so on.
• Another term for division; used because the candidate elected then has a seat in parliament.
• An instrument granting trading privileges on an exchange. A seat may also represent an ownership interest in the exchange.
• The place where riders sit while riding a roller coaster. These can be anything from suspended chairlift-style seats, to high-back seats, to soft padded bench seats.
• The right which confers membership of Safex on the registered holder or lessee thereof
• Similar to SCALE. Summer dwelling and pasture. Can be found in relation to upland fields and also as an element in place-names.
• One buys "a seat" on an exchange in order to become an exchange member. SAFEX seats were originally issued at R25 000 and traded as low as R4 000 in 1991. In 1994 seats were changing hands at R175 000.
• The traditional term for membership on a stock exchange. An investment dealer would buy a seat on the exchange and one employee would be designated as the seat holder.

• seasures ←
• seasure ←
• seastrands ←
• seat
• → seatback
• → seatbacks
• → seatbelt