cabinet secretary
She needs to persuade the hard-liners in the cabinet.
The Minister made clear that he had left the Cabinet of his own volition.
It is rumoured that she wants to get back into the Cabinet.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Government ministers & civil servants
aide
am
attorney general
backbencher
cabinet minister
Foreign Secretary
functionary
government
Home Secretary
interministerial
private member
private secretary
Privy Councillor
procurator
public servant
syndic
town clerk
undersecretary
vizier
Whitehall

cabinetnoun (FURNITURE)

A2[ C ]
a piece of furniture with shelves, cupboards, or drawers, used for storing or showing things: 贮藏柜;陈列柜;橱柜
Valuable pieces of china were on display in a glass-fronted cabinet.贵重瓷器陈列在正面是玻璃的柜子里。
The office had a row of filing cabinets along one wall.
I looked for a cotton swab in the bathroom cabinet.
 
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Furniture for storage
airing cupboard
almirah
bookcase
bookshelf
broom closet
cubby
cubbyhole
cupboard
cwtch
drawer
hot press
hutch
locker
ottoman
shelf
shelves
trophy cabinet
walk-in
wardrobe
Welsh dresser

cabinet | American Dictionary

cabinet
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkæb·ə·nɪt/

cabinetnoun[C] (FURNITURE)

a piece of furniture with shelves or drawers that is used for storing useful things or showing decorative things:
a medicine cabinet
A filing cabinet is a set of large drawers in which papers can be stored.

cabinetnoun[C] (GOVERNMENT)

politics & government
a small group of people within a government who give advice to the highest leader, such as the president or prime minister:
In the US, the Secretary of Defense is a member of the president’s Cabinet.

cabinet | Business English

cabinet
noun[ C,usually singular ]
uk /ˈkæbɪnət/us(usuallyCabinet)
GOVERNMENT
a small group of the most important people in a government, who meet regularly to make the main decisions:
As president he holds the reins of power, including the power of appointing the Cabinet.
a cabinet appointment/member/post
Cabinet minister

Examples of cabinet

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Swabs from internal parts of the cabinets and air ducts were taken for bacteriological analysis after the cleaning and disinfection procedures and before the animals were housed.
On the one hand, the domestic strategy pursued towards the public business sector was determined by the party in power - conservative governments privatized and left-wing cabinets did not.
Economic performance influences centrist cabinets more sharply.
Rather, budget debates, confidence votes of cabinets, and the questioning of ministers are the likely paths toward the evolution of greater democratization in monarchical authoritarian regimes.
In his discussion he suggests that the vague labelling of specimens in missionary cabinets is one example of this emptiness that removes the specimens even further from their surroundings.
An earlier report from the cabinet's war policy committee had noted that recruitment that year was so far below estimates that it was insufficient to replace 'wastage ' in offensive operations.
Filing cabinets in care facilities around the world are full of information about people's lives but still care staff will not know even the rudimentary facts.
He finds that there is a nucleus of about thirty ministers who were often re-appointed, and a core of twenty-three men who were appointed to nine or more cabinets.
The dismal economic performance of the 1970s pushed right-wing cabinets, but not leftist governments, to formulate and implement extensive privatization programmes - in a way which conservatives had not dared before.
Indeed, this permits us to call attention once again to our very different perspectives on what it takes to understand the stability of cabinets in parliamentary democracies.
The competition and cooperation engendered by the medium-sized district system and the process of founding cabinets on the premise of constructing factional coalitions, were gone forever.
If a party contributes, say, 8 per cent of this cabinet's total seat share, it cannot possibly receive the same proportion of portfolios; it must be either under-rewarded or over-rewarded.
The cabinet's 1987 directive contained the basic features of the reform (broadening the tax base and lowering tax rates), and these were indeed the central features of the actual reform.
Based on these theoretical results, we develop and test operational hypotheses against a sample of 134 cabinets representing twelve semi-presidential and twelve purely parliamentary regimes in the 1990s.
Labelling will also be applied to commercial and industrial energy-using products, such as cold storage rooms or chilled display cabinets.
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arcade cabinet
The arcade cabinet features foot pedals (visible in picture) that, when pressed, reverse the player's direction.
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