单词 | all-seater |
释义 | all-seateradj.n. Sport (originally and chiefly British). A. adj. Designating a sports stadium, ground, etc., having a seat for every spectator and no standing places, esp. (in Association Football) a stadium with no terracing. ΚΠ 1976 A. Nickolds & S. Hey ‘Foul’ Bk. Football i. 46/1 Redevelopment disasters..[include] an out of town sports fantasia with a soulless all-seating stadium.] 1980 Times 26 Jan. 6/5 Crystal Palace are planning a £7m all-seater stadium. 1985 Financial Times 17 Aug. i. 6/7 Some of those new all-seater stands..proved far more expensive than planned and left the club in dire straits. 1998 J. Honeybourne et al. PE for You 228 Following..the Hillsborough Stadium disaster of 1989, the government commissioned a major investigation into..the safety aspects of football grounds. The main conclusion..was that all stadiums should become all-seater. 2001 M. Breheny & D. Keenan Ultimate Encycl. Gaelic Football & Hurling 145/3 The stand was added in 1990, and today the ground is all-seater with a capacity of approximately 35,000. B. n. An all-seater stadium. ΚΠ 1988 Herald (Melbourne) (Nexis) 24 Nov. Once it [sc. Ibrox Park] held over 118,000..but it has since become an all-seater and had its capacity reduced to 44,000. 1989 Independent 17 Apr. 4/3 South of the border, only Coventry City made its stadium into an all-seater but the two-year experiment ended in 1983 with the reinstallation of standing room for 2,000 spectators. 1992 N. Hornby Fever Pitch 220 All-seaters should give clubs greater control over who occupies which part of the ground. 2001 World Soccer Mar. 80/2 All-seaters have never seemed to me a panacea... How often is such seating simply abused by fans who insist on standing? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1980 |
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