house seat

noun

one of a number of seats in a theater that the management reserves for special guests, friends of the producer or cast, etc.

Origin of house seat

First recorded in 1945–50

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Giffords, Kelly, and her political team have not yet decided whether she will seek reelection to her house seat.
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Ten states, mostly in the more liberal Northeast, will likely lose one house seat or more.
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Ivy failed to imagine this; her attention was occupied with the End house seat.
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He wants to own outright, even if his property is no more than a house seat.
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The Tiptons had given the couple their house seat, a bedstead, a table.
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