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Cabinet
WordNet
noun
(1) A piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display
(2) Housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television
(3) A storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock
(4) Persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers
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Etymology
From , influenced by .
In sense of “a government group”, compare , also named for a room used to gather.
Noun
- A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
- A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".
- 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal In Bohemia, Norton (2005), p. 19,
- Holmes took a note of it. “One other question,” said he. “Was the photograph a cabinet?”
- 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal In Bohemia, Norton (2005), p. 19,
- 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 small chamber or private room.
- (often capitalized) a collection of art or ethnographic objects
- milkshake
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