| 单词 | cabinet |
| 释义 | cabinet (once / 165 pages) 1n 2n A cabinet is a piece of furniture that has doors and drawers and is often used for storage, like a kitchen cabinet that holds your drinking glasses and plates. Cabinets store things, like a bathroom cabinet that holds items like toothbrushes and soap. Another kind of cabinet is a group of official advisers of executive departments of governments. President Andrew Jackson had a group of informal advisers whom his opponents mockingly called his "kitchen cabinet," a term which has since lost its negative meaning and describes any President's closest confidantes. WORD FAMILYcabinet: cabinets USAGE EXAMPLESAhead of a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Netanyahu responded, saying: "I suggest the opposition calm down." Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) But the big story continues to be the Trump Cabinet. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) In the short term, Democrats are focused more on Trump’s Cabinet picks and the looming Supreme Court nomination. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock Syn|Hypo|Hyper locker, storage locker glory hole, lazaretto a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship compartment a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area 2n a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display Hypo|Hyper china cabinet, china closet a cabinet (usually with glass doors) for storing and displaying china dressera cabinet with shelves medicine cabinet, medicine chestcabinet that holds medicines and toiletries article of furniture, furniture, piece of furniture furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy 3n housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television 2Syn|Hyper console housing a protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component n persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers Hypo|Hyper British Cabinet the senior ministers of the British government shadow cabineta group of senior members of the political party that is out of power; these members would probably assume corresponding positions as ministers in the British Cabinet if their party was elected US Cabinet, United States Cabineta board to advise the President; members are the secretaries of executive departments; the United States constitution does not provide for the cabinet advisory board, planning board a board appointed to advise the chief administrator |
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