单词 | cabinet minister |
释义 | > as lemmascabinet minister C2. As a modifier, with the sense ‘of, relating to, or belonging to a political cabinet’ (see branch A. II.), as in cabinet minister, cabinet meeting, etc.Recorded earliest in Cabinet Council n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > council of state > [adjective] > of or relating to cabinet cabinet1632 1625 J. Chamberlain in Cal. State Papers: Domestic Ser. 1625–6 (1858) 12 There is talk of a selected or Cabinet council. 1806 J. Randolph in National Intelligencer (Washington D.C.) 17 Mar. 11 My answer was (and from a cabinet minister too), ‘there is no longer any cabinet.’ 1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 36 934 Did any body suppose that three years were sufficient to be spent in a cabinet office to entitle the individual to a cabinet pension? 1867 W. Bagehot Eng. Constit. i. 22 This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government. 1938 Ann. Reg. 1937 31 The second reading of the Ministers of the Crown Bill..was moved on April 12 by Sir John J. Simon, who pointed out that it was for the first time placing on the Statute-book the terms ‘Cabinet’ and ‘Cabinet Minister’. 1977 N. Sahgal Situation in New Delhi xiii. 128 Sometimes during a Cabinet meeting he said not more than five well-spaced words of one syllable each. 2015 Financial Times 22 Apr. 3/1 Lord Tebbit, another former cabinet secretary, added to the criticism. < as lemmas |
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