cabinet
IPA: kˈæbʌnʌt
noun
- A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
- A cupboard.
- (figuratively) A source of valuable things; a storehouse.
- The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game, a cab.
- (historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".
- A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
- (politics, often capitalized) In parliamentary and some other systems of government, the group of ministers responsible for creating government policy and for overseeing the departments comprising the executive branch.
- (Kentucky) A cabinet-level agency in the executive branch; that is, an agency headed by a member of the governor's cabinet.
- (archaic) A small chamber or private room.
- (often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
- (dialectal, Rhode Island) Milkshake.
- (obsolete) A hut; a cottage; a small house.
- An enclosure for mechanical or electrical equipment.
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Examples of "cabinet" in Sentences
- The Communists left the cabinet.
- The stable was named The Cabinet.
- The magician is sealed in the cabinet.
- The saucers are placed in the cabinet.
- Hain is answerable only to the Cabinet.
- Cabinet reshuffles in the United Kingdom.
- He is officially the head of the cabinet.
- The nation is the plaything of this cabinet.
- The Cabinet unanimously approved the resolution.
- The kitchen is the original, even the cabinets and sink.
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