cabinet
Other forms: cabinets
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.
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a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a locksynonyms: locker, storage lockertypes:type of:compartmenta partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area
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a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or displaytypes:dressera cabinet with shelvestype of:article of furniture, furniture, piece of furniturefurnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy
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housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television
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persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official adviserstypes:British Cabinetthe senior ministers of the British governmentshadow 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 electedUS 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 cabinettype of:
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Learning this list will prime you to better understand news articles about the daily business of the American government. Note that the sentence examples for these words were plucked from a variety of reputable news sources (The Washington Times, The LA Times, Time, etc.)
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