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单词 ministry
释义 min·is·try
\ˈminə̇strē, -ri\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: Middle English ministerie, from Latin ministerium service, from minister servant — more at minister
1. : the action of ministering : the performance of any service or function for another : ministration
 < the ministry of books is at least threefold — T.V.Smith >
 < the ingenuity of destruction … had outrun the ministry of healing — Dixon Wecter >
 < the Gospels … become part of the present saving ministry of the Redeemer — H.H.Farmer >
2. : the office, duties, or functions of a minister of religion
 < prepared for the ministry — A.E.Bailey >
 < the true missionary is … occupied with the vital aspects of his ministry — E.A.Nida >
 < answered the call to the ministry — Wayne Hooper >
3. obsolete : a specific kind of service : function, office
 < to sever the wheat from the tares … must be the angel's ministry — John Milton >
4. : the body of ordained ministers of religion : clergy
 < insistence on a highly trained ministry — R.T.Handy >
5. : a person or thing through which something is accomplished : agency 2, : instrumentality
 < heroic believers become such by the ministry of heroic pains — Austin Phelps >
6.
 a. : the period of service of a minister of religion
 b. : the total life of service of a religious figure
  < an outline account of the ministry of our Lord — Times Literary Supplement >
7. often capitalized
 a.
  (1) : the whole body of ministers entrusted with the government of a nation or state and from which a smaller cabinet is sometimes selected
   < when a cabinet goes out of office, it … carries the entire ministry with it — F.A.Ogg & Harold Zink >
   < the crown is the supreme executive … in all the dominions but it acts on the advice of different ministries — Robert Borden >
   < a responsible ministry >
  (2) : the usually smaller group of ministers constituting a cabinet
 b. : the whole body of ministers or the cabinet currently holding office
8.
 a. : a government department presided over by a minister
  < ministries of justice have been the spearhead in promoting the recurrent great codifications of Continental law — C.J.Friedrich >
  < the Communists received the three ministries they … wanted — W.S.Vucinich >
  < ministry of foreign affairs >
  < ministry of transport >
 b. : the building in which the business of a ministry is transacted
  < whether he had noticed any other member … entering the ministry — C.D.Lewis >
9. : the term of office held by an individual minister or by a body of ministers
 < the Tory ministry lasted for fifteen years >
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