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cabinet
/ˈkæb.ɪ.nɪt/
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What does cabinet mean?
noun
- A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
- A cupboard.
- A museum display case.
More meanings (11)
noun
- (figuratively) A source of valuable things; a storehouse.
- The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game, a cab.
- A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
- 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.
- A cabinet-level agency in the executive branch; that is, an agency headed by a member of the governor's cabinet.
- A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
- Milkshake.
- An enclosure for mechanical or electrical equipment.
- (historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".
- (archaic) A small chamber or private room.
- (obsolete) A hut; a cottage; a small house.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkæb.ɪ.nɪt/
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“When I was at the cabinet, my back must have been turned towards you. How did you see what I was doing?”
The dining-room into which the guest was conducted betrayed a feminine touch not visible in the smoke-dimmed quarters of shop and cabinet.
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No party could ignore him, and if he had wished to be in the Cabinet he certainly would have been put there.
Unanimity vanished alike from the cabinet and the field, and their common weal was threatened with ruin, by the spirit of disunion.
When a quarter or more of the total members of either house makes the demand, the Cabinet must determine on such convocation.