cabinet
(kæbɪnɪt )
Word forms: cabinets
1. countable noun [usually noun NOUN] B2
A cabinet is a cupboard used for storing things such as medicine or alcoholic drinks or for displaying decorative things in.
The star of my medicine cabinet is the humble aspirin.
He looked at the display cabinet with its gleaming sets of glasses.
2. See also filing cabinet
3. countable noun [oft NOUN noun] government
The Cabinet is a group of the most senior ministers in a government, who meet regularly to discuss policies.
The announcement came after a three-hour Cabinet meeting.
...a former Cabinet Minister.
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He will announce a new Cabinet today.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
An important indication will come in the next few weeks when he announces his Cabinet and key provincial governors.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The new president will announce his cabinet today.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The new leader will come in place and appoint a Shadow Cabinet.
The Sun (2019)
She appointed a Cabinet of loyal friends largely devoid of talent.
The Sun (2019)
He called for a presidential system that would allow a directly elected leader to appoint their own cabinet.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
A fellow shadow cabinet member thinks he blew it.
Times, Sunday Times
Each cabinet member was given time to digest the key points - and an opportunity to dissent.
Times, Sunday Times
One shadow cabinet member predicted that the shadow foreign secretary would resign if moved.
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A shadow cabinet member warned that voters would be put off.
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He added that the procedure was to delegate responsibility for answering councillors' questions to his relevant cabinet member.
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They corresponded to the natural and manmade 'marvels' that comprised the princely cabinet of curiosities.
The Times Literary Supplement
Many great collections were made on that basis, and her cabinet of curiosities reflects a very engaging personality.
Times, Sunday Times
But the idea of a cabinet of curiosities has really come back in recent years.
Smithsonian Mag
He kept her in a small cabinet of curiosities in his studio, and consulted her endlessly on the crucial sculptural subject of blobbiness.
Times, Sunday Times
A modern cabinet of curiosities.
Times, Sunday Times
In the lead, jogging up and down the tarmac, went the 48-year-old cabinet official, slim, square-shouldered, with chiselled astronaut good looks.
Times, Sunday Times
Cabinet officials believe that the new vote will not take place until the middle of next month.
Times, Sunday Times
Approximately 50 dignitaries, family members and cabinet officials gathered in the front library for the inauguration.
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This check on executive power can be employed through binding legislation, public debates on government policy, investigations, and direct questioning of the chancellor or cabinet officials.
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You might mock, but it's a cabinet position.
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By my calculations, six prime ministers in our history who were formerly chancellors of the exchequer then took another cabinet position before moving on to the top job.
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Housing minister was once a cabinet position and really must be again.
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The person who plays the role of the opponent in debate rehearsals can end up with a prominent cabinet position.
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However, despite his prominence he was not given a cabinet position.
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Had it not been for a pang of conscience, he might have gone on to a cabinet post.
Times,Sunday Times
All this suggests that whoever emerges victorious from this year's poll, the key job of housing minister must be a cabinet post.
Times, Sunday Times
But yesterday he played down suggestions his cabinet post was a reward for loyalty.
Globe and Mail
He was recognized as a highly capable minister; he didn't need to angle for a good cabinet post in the next government.
Globe and Mail
In the past the mogul has even suggested giving her a cabinet post.
The Sun
Below those officials who serve at cabinet rank are almost 4,000 staff.
Times, Sunday Times
Although prime ministers and chancellors survive longer, job security appears to decline with cabinet rank.
Times,Sunday Times
Unlike his predecessor, he was not raised to cabinet rank.
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The speech is an attempt to regain the initiative after criticism of his handling of a shadow cabinet reshuffle.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
A cabinet reshuffle is expected next month.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Don't worry: there was a cabinet reshuffle last week.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The shadow cabinet room 's going to be awfully cramped.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
On the afternoon of August 5 a council of war met in the cabinet room.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
In a meeting in the cabinet room in 2000, ministers told him how useless they thought the civil service was.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Hints that the cabinet secretary may be changed when the next government comes to power starkly contradict what the four prime ministers said.
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The nature of the role of cabinet secretary means most achievements and failures will remain hidden from public view.
Times, Sunday Times
The present cabinet secretary - who finds time to double up as the national security adviser - was personally selected by the incumbent prime minister.
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The former cabinet secretary observed that, as well as vacating the chamber, lots of office space must be found.
Times, Sunday Times
He said that the cabinet secretary would 'probably be the person who provides the advice to the prime minister and cabinet'.
Times, Sunday Times
With a cabinet shuffle imminent, how should an endangered minister behave?
Times,Sunday Times
The cabinet shuffle will include several other major changes, insiders said.
Globe and Mail
The elections also come after a significant cabinet shuffle in recent months that saw the replacement of at least five members of cabinet.
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As a result, the party lost its only cabinet post in the ensuing cabinet shuffle.
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He was dropped from cabinet in 1974 during a major cabinet shuffle and left politics the next year to return to his legal practice.
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If she had to go, so did her entire cabinet, and most of the country.
The Times Literary Supplement
His entire cabinet went with him, although most ministers will probably be reappointed.
Times,Sunday Times
When the trawl proves fruitless, the prime minister calls the entire cabinet together.
Times, Sunday Times
I hope the entire cabinet, however stupefied by the mixture of threats, intense humidity and bread-and-butter pudding, paid particular attention to that session.
Times, Sunday Times
The total duty on the entire cabinet was more than 50 - six times the average monthly wage at that time.
Times, Sunday Times
The president will chair a meeting on Monday to discuss forming a new cabinet.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The incoming president has the entire nation to choose from in forming his cabinet, unlike Britain where we are restricted to the 350 or so successful MPs of the ruling party.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
' Instead of making speeches he should be forming a war cabinet.
The Sun (2009)
A glass cabinet holds editions of his books.
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Elsewhere, he files tiny ones in a glass cabinet.
Times, Sunday Times
Among his purchases was a glass cabinet containing medicines, which cost 1.3m.
Times, Sunday Times
The family's home, with a discarded glass cabinet in its concreted-over front garden, appeared deserted yesterday.
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At the top of the plot stands an empty glass cabinet.
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In the dining room, there was a large glass-fronted cabinet filled with Royal Doulton chinaware.
AFTERMATH (2001)
Embrace glass-fronted cabinets or drawers to show the world your hidden depths.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
I've got so many glass-fronted cabinets in the house - I've been putting lace on the inside of those so you can't see what's inside.
Times,Sunday Times (2020)
Inside that same locked cabinet, inside a helmet, he happened upon a handful of rubber stamps.
Times, Sunday Times
He stored them in a locked cabinet at their large, comfortable, suburban home - all apart from one handgun, which he kept in the bedroom and which his son stole.
Times, Sunday Times
The documents came from a locked cabinet belonging to the committee, which was forced open with a blow torch during a break-in last year.
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Keep household cleaners in a locked cabinet.
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It typically consisted of a tube-tester atop a locked cabinet of tubes, with a flip chart of instructions.
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Instead, after two months in power, he has yet to name a cabinet.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
He took six months to name his first cabinet in 2015, although he was slightly quicker in his second term.
Times,Sunday Times (2020)
She 'll name a new cabinet soon and she'll hold a new session of the legislature, likely in May - but she ' d prefer it not sit long before breaking for the summer.
canada.com (2012)
It could mean anything but the researchers arbitrarily decided it was a request to open a cabinet and bring a biscuit.
Times, Sunday Times
She would open the cabinet doors and let the animals get some air; also, she carried the animals and told them stories.
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He goes down to the kitchen and opens a cabinet, only to find the masked figure stuffed inside it.
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She reshuffled her Cabinet immediately, then appeared in a video.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The Prime Minister should then reshuffle his Cabinet to symbolise the change of course.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Hopefully he will first rest sufficiently, but one of his earliest government tasks should be to reshuffle his cabinet.
Times,Sunday Times (2020)
Spotlights feature beneath each wall storage cabinet in the fitted kitchen and there's even an integrated fridge and freezer.
The Sun
The storage cabinet was 60 inches high and 27 inches wide, weighed 625 pounds, and held up to 4 disk storage units.
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Older samples, going back to whaling expeditions of the mid-1800s, gather dust in museum storage cabinets and private collections, ripe for study.
Smithsonian Mag
Think about using slimline storage cabinets in halls and knocking out unused understairs cupboards to create space.
Times, Sunday Times
An edict went out that storage cabinets must be procured which featured a rounded top, making it impossible for staff to leave anything on the surface.
Times, Sunday Times
The 50-gallon metal storage tank, housed in a wooden cabinet, could be set up at the curbside in front of a store.
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His other hobbies included tennis, wooden cabinet making and assembling stereo equipment.
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Soon there were too many to put on the bike, so she left up to 30 loaves in a wooden cabinet on the pavement outside her house for collection.
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I have grown up to be very secretive, because my whole life was in a wooden cabinet by the side of my bed for months at a time.
Times, Sunday Times
Instead, we head up a small alleyway outside the farm on the main road out of the village to find a small, wooden cabinet attached to the wall.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 储藏柜
Japanese: キャビネット
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