cabinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæb.ɪ.nɪt/
ipa: /ˈkæb.ɪ.nɪt/
ipa: /ˈkæb.nɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈkæb.ə.nət/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈkæb.nət/
ipa: /ˈkæb.nət/
Forms: form: cabinets
Etymology: From cabin + -et, influenced by French cabinet.
In sense of “a government group”, compare salon, also named for a room used to gather.
Senses: glosses: A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
examples: text: ‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A cupboard.
examples: text: It is a perfect cabinet of faithful, valuable, and extensive information; and it ought to have a place on the shelves of the most select and compact library, and be in the possession of every private family, as a work both of valuable reference.
ref: 1844 August, “Notices of New Works: The Travels of Marco Polo, greatly Amended and Enlarged, from Valuable early Manuscripts recently published by the French Society of Geography, and [in] Italy, by Count Baldelli Boni […]. By Hugh Murray, F. R. S. E.”, in The Metropolitan, volume 40, London: Saunders and Otley, page 117:
glosses: A source of valuable things; a storehouse.
glosses: The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game, a cab.
examples: text: Holmes took a note of it. “One other question,” said he. “Was the photograph a cabinet?”
ref: 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal In Bohemia, Norton, published 2005, page 19:
glosses: A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".
glosses: A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
examples: text: Lincoln had a great deal of trouble with his Cabinet because some of them got it into their heads that they, and not the President, were the policy-makers. James K. Polk had the same difficulty with his Cabinet. Franklin Roosevelt never had any difficulty with his Cabinet for the simple reason that he himself, in my opinion, spent too much time doing the work that should have been delegated to the Cabinet.
ref: 1955, Harry S Truman, Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Year of Decisions, volume I, Signet Books, published 1965, →OCLC, →OL, page 364:
topics: government
politics
glosses: 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.
examples: text: The executive branch of Kentucky state government is structured on a program cabinet system consisting of 14 program cabinets, each headed by a secretary, who is appointed by the Governor. The program cabinets listed below and the agencies within each cabinet are designated in the statutes.
ref: 2003, A Handbook for Gubernatorial Transition in Kentucky, Legislative Research Commission, page 49:
topics: government
politics
glosses: 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.
qualifier: Kentucky
examples: text: Philip passed some hours every day in his father's cabinet.
ref: 1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A small chamber or private room.
glosses: A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
examples: text: One of Rhode Island's most famous beverages is the Awful Awful, an enormous 32-ounce, rich, creamy milk shake sold at the Newport Creamery stores, a soda fountain and casual restaurant chain. This ultra-thick cabinet is "awful big and awful good," thus the name.
ref: 2012, Linda Beaulieu, Providence & Rhode Island Cookbook: Big Recipes from the Smallest State, page 268:
qualifier: Rhode Island
glosses: Milkshake.
examples: text: Hearken a while from thy green cabinet, / The rural song of careful Colinet.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “December. Ægloga Duodecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A hut; a cottage; a small house.
glosses: An enclosure for mechanical or electrical equipment.
Synonyms: sense: cabinet-level agency in the executive branch
word: cabinet agency
sense: cabinet-level agency in the executive branch
word: cabinet department
sense: cabinet-level agency in the executive branch
word: program cabinet
sense: cabinet-level agency in the executive branch
word: superagency
Derived terms: animal cabinet
ante-cabinet
cabinetable
cabinet agency
cabinet card
cabinet department
cabinet edition
cabineteer
cabinet file
cabinetful
cabinetisation
cabinetlike
cabinet maker
cabinetmaker
cabinet making
cabinetmaking
cabinet minister
cabinet noir
cabinet of curiosities
cabinet particulier
cabinet piano
cabinet pianoforte
cabinet pudding
cabinetry
cabinet saw
cabinetted
cabinet window
cabinetwork
cabinetworker
cabinetworking
china cabinet
cocktail cabinet
coffee cabinet
display cabinet
drinks cabinet
file cabinet
filing cabinet
fire cabinet
inner cabinet
kitchen cabinet
loudspeaker cabinet
medicine cabinet
minority cabinet
noncabinet
program cabinet
shadow cabinet
Shadow Cabinet
Shaker cabinet
spirit cabinet
subcabinet
supercabinet
undercabinet
war cabinet
Related terms: armoire
chest of drawers
salon