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


  1. A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
  2. 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?”
  3. A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
  4. 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.
  5. A small chamber or private room.
  6. (often capitalized) a collection of art or ethnographic objects
  7. milkshake

Noun


cabinet m
  1. a study
  2. an office, a surgery
  3. a cabinet
  4. a cabinet of government advisors
  5. the toilet, lavatory
 
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