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Cabinet

Meaning in politics & government, with examples

/ˈkæbɪnət/nounCore term

In politics & government, cabinet means: The group of senior ministers, led by the prime minister or president, who meet regularly to decide government policy.

In Turkish: kabine, bakanlar kurulu

How it is used

The cabinet meets, discusses and approves decisions. A leader forms or reshuffles a cabinet, and a cabinet minister is a minister who sits in it. Decisions are often presented as collective: the cabinet agreed...

Example sentences

  1. The cabinet will discuss the draft budget at Thursday's meeting.

  2. Two new faces joined the cabinet after the reshuffle.

Common collocations

  • cabinet meeting
  • cabinet minister
  • form a cabinet
  • cabinet reshuffle
  • shadow cabinet
  • ministerA senior member of the government who is responsible for a particular area of policy, such as health, education or finance, and usually leads a ministry.
  • prime ministerThe leader of the government in many countries, usually the head of the largest party or coalition in parliament, who chairs the cabinet.
  • reshuffleA change in which a prime minister or president moves ministers to different jobs, removes some of them and brings new people into the cabinet.
  • governmentThe group of people who run a country at a given time, led by a prime minister or president; more broadly, the system and institutions through which a state is governed.
  • executiveThe branch of government that puts laws into effect and runs the country day to day, made up of the head of government, ministers and their departments.

More terms: Government and the Executive

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