front seat

plural front seats · alternative frontseat

1. automotiveA seat in the front of the vehicle, especially the one next to the driver.

   Coordinate term: back seat

   3 more examples

   The state police recovered a broken, jumbo (1.75-liter) bottle of vodka under the front seat of the burned-out wreckage of the minivan.

   Who gets to sit in the front seat of the car?

   Being that the leading cause of death in children over the age of three is motor vehicle collisions, parents should do everything possible to get their kids to buckle up and to keep smaller children from sitting in the deathtrap otherwise known as the front seat.

   2012 August 8, Lindsay Abrams, “Study: We Are Pathetically Failing at Safely Putting Children in Cars”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2023

2. figurativelyA position of influence or priority.