empty chair

collocation in English

meaningsofemptyandchair

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empty
adjective
uk
/ˈemp.ti/us
/ˈemp.ti/
not containing any things ...
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chair
noun[C]
uk
/tʃeər/us
/tʃer/
a seat for one person that has a back, usually four legs, and sometimes ...
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(Definition ofemptyandchairfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofempty chair

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Even before the episode of theemptychair, most major questions had been decided by consensus.
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Part of theemptychaircan be seen to the right.
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There is theemptychair.
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There is nothing to celebrate in anemptychair.
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That would certainly be better than anemptychair.
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There was not an empty table or anemptychairin the whole vast building.
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I was not opposed to the policy of theemptychair.
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We could refuse to carry out the policy of theemptychair.
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Theemptychairwas then draped in a black sheet.
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I rose from the bigemptychairand began to wander through the rooms of my house.
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The last government threatened and exercised a veto, using the doctrine of theemptychair, and got nowhere.
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Theemptychairis there at the table, but it is for someone who wants to talk about sovereignty.
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Theemptychairpolicy, or the threat of it, is not a very effective way to proceed.
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There is anemptychairnext to her and a guitar in between.
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Later she sits at a table alone opposite anemptychair.
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The rest of the candidates agreed on leaving an "emptychair" to symbolize that the fifth candidate was indeed invited.
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In an open fishbowl, any member of the audience can, at any time, occupy theemptychairand join the fishbowl.
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His proposal not to teach history, philosophy, mythology or comparative philology seems to strip the subject very bare and would, it thought, leave the post as anemptychair.
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