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'''Bench''', '''The Bench''', '''Benched''', or '''Benching''' may refer to:
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==Furniture==
*[[Bench (furniture)]], a long seat
**[[Memorial bench]], a bench commemorating someone who is deceased
*[[Workbench]], a table at which manual work is done
*[[Countertop]] or benchtop

==Arts==
*[[The Bench (film)|''The Bench'' (film)]], a 2000 Danish film
*[[The Bench (TV series)|''The Bench'' (TV series)]], a 2001 British series
*[[The Bench (Hogarth)|''The Bench'' (Hogarth)]], a painting by William Hogarth
*[[The Bench (book)|''The Bench'' (book)]], a 2021 children's book by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
*[[Benched (film)|''Benched'' (film)]], a 2018 sports drama
*[[Benched (TV series)|''Benched'' (TV series)]], a 2014 sitcom
*[[Benched (Modern Family)|"Benched" (Modern Family)]], an episode of sitcom ''Modern Family''
*"Benched", an episode of drama series [[List of Hit the Floor episodes#ep9|''Hit the Floor'']]

==Business==
*[[Bench (Philippine clothing brand)]]
*[[Bench (British clothing brand)]]
*[[Bench Accounting]], a company

==Geology==
*[[Bench (geology)]],  a long, relatively narrow strip of relatively level or gently inclined land of differing origins that is bounded by distinctly steeper slopes above and below it
*Benches, steps cut into the side of [[Open-pit mining|open-pit mines]]

==Law and politics==
*[[Bench (law)]], the location where a judge sits while in court, often a raised desk in a courtroom; also refers to the judiciary as a whole, and to a group of judges hearing a case and judging on a case
**Bench, the panel or body of [[justices of the peace]] in a specific county under the traditional English system of magistracy

==People==
*[[Jo Bench]], English death metal bass player
*[[Johnny Bench]], American baseball player
*[[Lauren Bench]], American ice hockey player

==Places==
*[[Bench, Idaho]]
*[[Bench (woreda)]], a district in Ethiopia

==Spoken==
*[[Bench language]], spoken in the Bench Maji Zone of Ethiopia
**[[Bench people]], an ethnic group of Ethiopia, speakers of the Bench language 
*Benching, bentching, or bentsching: the recitation of ''[[Birkat Hamazon]]'', a Jewish blessing after eating a meal, also known as Grace After Meals

==Sports==
*Bench, the place where players available for [[Substitution (sport)|substitution]] wait (synonymously ''dugout''); also used as a metonym to refer to the substitute players collectively, while an active player leaving the field to become a substitute is ''benched''
**In soccer, the [[technical area]] contains the bench
*[[Bench (weight training)]], a piece of weight training equipment
*[[Bench press]], one of three power-lifting exercises, commonly referred to as ''benching''
*[[California Golden Bears#The Bench|The Bench]], the student rooting section for the University of California men's basketball team

==See also==
*[[Benchmark (disambiguation)]]
*[[Benchmarking]], the practice of comparing business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and best practices
*[[Benchmarking (hobby)]], a recreational activity in which participants search for benchmarks using a handheld Global Positioning System
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