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WORD ORIGINministry

Origin:

1300-1400 Latin ministerium, from minister; ➔ MINISTER1

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Allen has been involved with Lutheran music ministry for more than 20 years.
the Ministry of Agriculture

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

A commitment to an authentic ministry of reconciliation is a radical one indeed.
At Borderway on Tuesday county auctioneers are meeting a senior ministry official, Richard Cowan, to discuss the problems.
Charges of withholding information from the public about the condition of banks and thrifts are not new to the ministry.
Eleven ministries run 18 different subsidy schemes for everything from school lunches to milk.
Having failed to make this distinction they are free to give their ministry calling a higher priority than their family.
Thankfully, by and large, Baxter kept controversy out of his pulpit ministry.
They had to attempt ministry where people on both sides had already made up their minds about slavery.
With our livelihood coming from food service it is necessary to find a way to integrate our work with our ministry.

WORD SETS► Christianity

abbess, nounabbey, nounabbot, nounabsolution, nounAdvent, nounalleluia, interjectionaltar boy, nounAnglican, nounAnglo-Catholic, nounapocalyptic, adjectiveapostle, nounapostolic, adjectivearchbishop, nounarchbishopric, nounarchdeacon, nounarchdiocese, nounArk of the Covenant, nounAsh Wednesday, nounAuthorized Version, banns, nounbaptism, nounBaptist, nounbaptize, verbbasilica, nounbeadle, nounbeatify, verbBenedictine, nounbenediction, nounbenefice, nounbiblical, adjectivebiretta, nounbishop, nounbishopric, nounblaspheme, verbblasphemy, nounbrother, nounbull, nounCalvinism, nounCalvinist, adjectivecanon, nouncanonical, adjectivecanonize, verbcanon law, nouncantor, nouncardinal, nouncardinal sin, nouncarol, nouncatechism, nouncathedral, nounCatholic, adjectivechantry, nounchapel, nounchaplain, nounchaplaincy, nounchapter, nounchapterhouse, nouncherub, nounChrist, nounchristen, verbChristendom, nounchristening, nounChristian, nounChristian, adjectivechurch, nounchurchgoer, nounchurchman, nounChurch of England, nounchurchwarden, nounchurchwoman, nounchurchyard, nounclergyman, nounclergywoman, nouncleric, nounclerical, adjectiveclerk, nouncloister, nouncollect, nouncommandment, nouncommunicant, nouncompline, nounconfess, verbconfession, nounconfessional, nounconfessor, nounconfirmation, nouncongregation, nounCongregationalism, nounconsecrate, verbcope, nouncreationist, nouncreche, nouncrib, nouncrosier, nouncrozier, nouncrucifix, nouncrucifixion, nouncrusade, nouncrusade, verbcrypt, nouncuracy, nouncurate, noundeacon, noundeaconess, noundean, noundeanery, noundiocese, noundisciple, noundisestablish, verbdispensation, noundog collar, nounDominican, nounEaster, nounecclesiastic, nounecclesiastical, adjectiveecumenical, adjectiveEden, nounelder, nounencyclical, nounEpiphany, nounepiscopal, adjectiveEpistle, nounevangelical, adjectiveevangelist, nounevangelize, verbevensong, nounexcommunicate, verbexegesis, nounfellowship, nounflagellant, nounflagellate, verbflock, nounfont, nounFr, friar, nounfrock, nounfundamentalist, noungargoyle, noungenuflect, verbgodfather, nounGod-fearing, adjectivegodless, adjectivegodly, adjectivegodmother, noungodparent, noungodson, nounGood Friday, noungrace, noungracious, adjectiveHail Mary, nounharvest festival, nounHigh Church, nounHigh Mass, nounHoly Communion, nounHoly Father, nounHoly Spirit, nounHoly Week, nounHoly Writ, nounhomily, nounhymn book, nounimprimatur, nounincarnation, nouninduct, verbindulgence, nouninquisitor, nouninterdenominational, adjectiveinterdict, nounJehovah, Jesuit, nounJesus, judgment day, nounlay, adjectivelay reader, nounlectern, nounlesson, nounlitany, nounLow Church, nounlychgate, nounMadonna, nounmanna, nounmanse, nounmatins, nounmeeting-house, nounmessianic, adjectiveMethodist, nounminister, nounministerial, adjectiveministry, nounminster, nounmiracle, nounmissal, nounmissionary, nounmitre, nounmoderator, nounMonsignor, nounMorning Prayer, nounmortal sin, nounMother of God, nounMother Superior, nounname day, nounNativity, nounNativity play, nounnave, nounNegro spiritual, nounNoah's ark, nounNonconformist, adjectivenuncio, nounoffertory, nounoratory, nounordination, nounoriginal sin, nounOur Father, nounOur Lady, Our Lord, padre, nounPalm Sunday, nounpapacy, nounpapal, adjectivepapist, nounparable, nounparish, nounparish church, nounparish clerk, nounparishioner, nounparochial, adjectiveparochial school, nounparson, nounparsonage, nounpassion play, nounpastor, nounpatriarch, nounpatron saint, nounpenance, nounpenitent, nounPentecost, nounPentecostal, adjectiveperdition, nounPlymouth Brethren, nounpontiff, nounpontifical, adjectivepontificate, nounPope, nounprayer book, nounpredestination, nounprelate, nounPresbyterian, nounpresbytery, nounpriest, nounPrimate, nounprior, nounprioress, nounpriory, nounPromised Land, the, Protestant, nounpsalm, nounpsalmist, nounpsalter, nounpulpit, nounQuaker, nounRC, rector, nounrectory, nounredeem, verbredemption, nounrequiem, nounRev, Revd, Reverend, nounReverend Mother, nounrevival, nounrevival meeting, nounRoman Catholic, adjectiverood screen, nounrosary, nounsacrament, nounsacristan, nounsacristy, nounsaint, nounsainted, adjectivesainthood, nounsaint's day, nounsalvation, nounsanctuary, nounSatan, nounsave, verbschism, nounscriptural, adjectivesecular, adjectivesee, nounseminary, nounseraph, nounsermon, nounsexton, nounShrove Tuesday, nounsister, nounsisterhood, nounSJ, special licence, nounsteeple, nounstigmata, nounstoup, nounSunday school, nounsurplice, nounsynod, nountabernacle, nountestify, verbtransubstantiation, nounTrappist, noununfrock, verbUnitarian, nounvenial, adjectivevespers, nounvestment, nounvestry, nounvicar, nounvicarage, nounvotive, adjectivevow, nounVulgate, the, nounWhitsun, nounwimple, nounXmas, noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► foreign/justice/finance etc ministry

a Defence Ministry spokesman

► entered the ministry

Converted in his early teens, he entered the ministry (=started working as a church leader) in 1855.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► federal

· The Federal Chancellor's Office is the largest Federal ministry in terms of senior posts.· Seven of the 16 federal ministries will remain in Bonn after the move.· Most Federal ministries should be regarded as planning staffs rather than administrative line organizations.· All state and federal health ministries will also be required to review their work in the light of these goals and targets.

► foreign

· The fostering of trade was preoccupying foreign ministries as never before.· In addition, the opposition demanded the foreign ministry and five other cabinet posts.· That decision was taken, in accordance with the law, after an opinion had been given by the foreign ministry.· That opinion was based on an interview Viza had with a foreign ministry official.· The training school in the Sardinian foreign ministry which was seriously considered at the end of the 1840s never came into existence.· In 1912 the foreign ministry calculated that a minimum of 15,000 marks was needed.· It was from the first bound up with the establishment of a foreign ministry archive.

► interior

· No group immediately claimed responsibility and an interior ministry statement on the blast made no accusations.· Four senior officials in the Foreign Affairs and Interior ministries were dismissed or resigned over their role in granting him entry.· So the interior ministry is about to haul up the white flag.· The newspaper Trud revealed interior ministry data confirming that the pool of official cars rose by 23,500 last year to 605,290.· I heard on the television yesterday that thirty-five people had been sacked from the interior ministry so that may be an encouraging sign.· The environment has hitherto been a fief of the interior ministry.

► key

· The key ministries of Defence and the Interior, however, remained in the hands of Maj.-Gen.

► new

· Whitehall has also had to find office space and officials to staff the new ministries promised by both parties.· Charges of withholding information from the public about the condition of banks and thrifts are not new to the ministry.· The Green Party co-leader's new ministry combines agricultural responsibilities and consumer protection departments taken from other ministries.· The task of establishing and encouraging national cultural activities was pursued with some vigour by the new ministry.

► other

· During the meetings ministers were not expected to raise objections to decisions affecting other ministries, much less to challenge the chair.· The second stage will involve the finance, education, housing and several other ministries.· He showed me that all my preaching, writing and other ministry was absolutely nothing compared to my love-relationship with him.· Several other senior ministry officials took pay cuts and were subject to disciplinary action.

► public

· He did not, however, withdraw from the public ministry.

► senior

· At Borderway on Tuesday county auctioneers are meeting a senior ministry official, Richard Cowan, to discuss the problems.· Several other senior ministry officials took pay cuts and were subject to disciplinary action.

► various

· This would require, in the opinion of various ministry representatives, more government coordination than now exists.

NOUN► agriculture

· They include the departments of health, trade and industry and social security, the agriculture ministry, and local authorities.· The report, co-drafted with the agriculture ministry, also outlined the amount lent by agricultural cooperatives to the jusen.

► defence

· The defence ministry refused to release his body to his family for a postmortem examination and radiation testing.· Itar-Tass news agency later quoted the defence ministry in Moscow as saying the report was groundless.· At one point Dostam used fighter bombers to attack the presidential palace and defence ministry.· The defence ministry was allocated $ 48m to pay electricity bills.· He sprayed two bursts of gunfire into a crowd outside the defence ministry and injured 10 people before he was fatally wounded.· But this pleased neither the defence ministry nor the navy who pointed out that it would merely sail back again.· The defence ministry denied the report.

► defense

· Labor will control the foreign and defense ministries, along with several other cabinet posts.

► education

· Even a sympathizer conceded that Aleksandr Golovnin possessed few qualifications for heading the education ministry.· Priority was given to the Health and Education ministries and a new budgetary allocation was created for road infrastructure.

► environment

· The first meeting to discuss the settlement's elephant problem had been held in February 1982 at the environment ministry.· The environment ministry, to which it is ultimately responsible, supports it to the tune of almost 5m francs.· Researchers who want to register innovations in fighting marine pollution are directed by the environment ministry to Cedre.· A law to encourage the industry to take back and reuse its rubble has languished for three years in the environment ministry.

► finance

· The number of deals will grow as the finance ministry eases restrictions on raising capital offshore.· Kiichi Miyazawa, the prime minister, used to work in the finance ministry, which oversees the tax office.· Few in the finance ministry will fret about this.· Reluctant to impose yet another local tax, the finance ministry has remained strongly opposed to the new measures.· In Tokyo and Paris finance ministries have stepped in to push through changes.· The hard men at the finance ministry have promised to review the austerity measures at the end of this month.· A group of experts commissioned by the finance ministry is thought to have recommended much self-regulation, as in London.

► health

· All state and federal health ministries will also be required to review their work in the light of these goals and targets.· The health ministry has fixed the pharmacists' profit margin at 10 %.· Liberal Raffaele Costa was promoted to the health ministry.· Ten months after Edwina Currie raised the alarm as a health ministry Under-Secretary of State, researchers have not been idle.· The health ministry went to Ulla Schmidt, a deputy leader of the Social Democrat group in parliament.· The project he was involved with were abruptly terminated in 1994 by the health ministry.· The health ministry says it is forced to buy more expensive medicines from the big drug manufacturers because of international patent agreements.· The health ministry has launched an investigation.

► official

· Interior ministry officials yesterday admitted that all main roads into Sarajevo were blocked after rebels had cut off the main northern route.· Finance ministry officials yesterday said at least six brokerages are under investigation for trading violations in the local Brady bond market.· At Borderway on Tuesday county auctioneers are meeting a senior ministry official, Richard Cowan, to discuss the problems.· If found guilty, the offending brokerages could be shuttered and officials imprisoned, ministry officials said.· That opinion was based on an interview Viza had with a foreign ministry official.· Most ministry officials are confident that their bureaucracy will survive in its current form.· Even foreign-ministry officials have begun to pay attention.· Several other senior ministry officials took pay cuts and were subject to disciplinary action.

VERB► begin

· Surviving these incidents, she says, led her to study, teach and begin her ministry.· Vicar makes a return A MUCH-TRAVELLED vicar is returning to the city where he began his ministry 30 years ago.· Travelling vicar goes full circle A MUCH-TRAVELLED vicar is returning to the city where he began his ministry 30 years ago.· As he began his ministry it was present in his person.

► enter

· A career in commerce proved uncongenial, so he entered the General Baptist/Unitarian ministry.

PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► the ministry

Nate felt called to the ministry.

WORD FAMILYnounministryministeradjectiveministerial

单词	ministry
释义	ministrymin‧is‧try /ˈmɪnəstri/ ●○○ AWL noun (plural ministries) Word Origin WORD ORIGINministry Origin: 1300-1400 Latin ministerium, from minister; ➔ MINISTER1 Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Allen has been involved with Lutheran music ministry for more than 20 years. the Ministry of Agriculture EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A commitment to an authentic ministry of reconciliation is a radical one indeed. At Borderway on Tuesday county auctioneers are meeting a senior ministry official, Richard Cowan, to discuss the problems. Charges of withholding information from the public about the condition of banks and thrifts are not new to the ministry. Eleven ministries run 18 different subsidy schemes for everything from school lunches to milk. Having failed to make this distinction they are free to give their ministry calling a higher priority than their family. Thankfully, by and large, Baxter kept controversy out of his pulpit ministry. They had to attempt ministry where people on both sides had already made up their minds about slavery. With our livelihood coming from food service it is necessary to find a way to integrate our work with our ministry. word sets WORD SETS► Christianity abbess, nounabbey, nounabbot, nounabsolution, nounAdvent, nounalleluia, interjectionaltar boy, nounAnglican, nounAnglo-Catholic, nounapocalyptic, adjectiveapostle, nounapostolic, adjectivearchbishop, nounarchbishopric, nounarchdeacon, nounarchdiocese, nounArk of the Covenant, nounAsh Wednesday, nounAuthorized Version, banns, nounbaptism, nounBaptist, nounbaptize, verbbasilica, nounbeadle, nounbeatify, verbBenedictine, nounbenediction, nounbenefice, nounbiblical, adjectivebiretta, nounbishop, nounbishopric, nounblaspheme, verbblasphemy, nounbrother, nounbull, nounCalvinism, nounCalvinist, adjectivecanon, nouncanonical, adjectivecanonize, verbcanon law, nouncantor, nouncardinal, nouncardinal sin, nouncarol, nouncatechism, nouncathedral, nounCatholic, adjectivechantry, nounchapel, nounchaplain, nounchaplaincy, nounchapter, nounchapterhouse, nouncherub, nounChrist, nounchristen, verbChristendom, nounchristening, nounChristian, nounChristian, adjectivechurch, nounchurchgoer, nounchurchman, nounChurch of England, nounchurchwarden, nounchurchwoman, nounchurchyard, nounclergyman, nounclergywoman, nouncleric, nounclerical, adjectiveclerk, nouncloister, nouncollect, nouncommandment, nouncommunicant, nouncompline, nounconfess, verbconfession, nounconfessional, nounconfessor, nounconfirmation, nouncongregation, nounCongregationalism, nounconsecrate, verbcope, nouncreationist, nouncreche, nouncrib, nouncrosier, nouncrozier, nouncrucifix, nouncrucifixion, nouncrusade, nouncrusade, verbcrypt, nouncuracy, nouncurate, noundeacon, noundeaconess, noundean, noundeanery, noundiocese, noundisciple, noundisestablish, verbdispensation, noundog collar, nounDominican, nounEaster, nounecclesiastic, nounecclesiastical, adjectiveecumenical, adjectiveEden, nounelder, nounencyclical, nounEpiphany, nounepiscopal, adjectiveEpistle, nounevangelical, adjectiveevangelist, nounevangelize, verbevensong, nounexcommunicate, verbexegesis, nounfellowship, nounflagellant, nounflagellate, verbflock, nounfont, nounFr, friar, nounfrock, nounfundamentalist, noungargoyle, noungenuflect, verbgodfather, nounGod-fearing, adjectivegodless, adjectivegodly, adjectivegodmother, noungodparent, noungodson, nounGood Friday, noungrace, noungracious, adjectiveHail Mary, nounharvest festival, nounHigh Church, nounHigh Mass, nounHoly Communion, nounHoly Father, nounHoly Spirit, nounHoly Week, nounHoly Writ, nounhomily, nounhymn book, nounimprimatur, nounincarnation, nouninduct, verbindulgence, nouninquisitor, nouninterdenominational, adjectiveinterdict, nounJehovah, Jesuit, nounJesus, judgment day, nounlay, adjectivelay reader, nounlectern, nounlesson, nounlitany, nounLow Church, nounlychgate, nounMadonna, nounmanna, nounmanse, nounmatins, nounmeeting-house, nounmessianic, adjectiveMethodist, nounminister, nounministerial, adjectiveministry, nounminster, nounmiracle, nounmissal, nounmissionary, nounmitre, nounmoderator, nounMonsignor, nounMorning Prayer, nounmortal sin, nounMother of God, nounMother Superior, nounname day, nounNativity, nounNativity play, nounnave, nounNegro spiritual, nounNoah's ark, nounNonconformist, adjectivenuncio, nounoffertory, nounoratory, nounordination, nounoriginal sin, nounOur Father, nounOur Lady, Our Lord, padre, nounPalm Sunday, nounpapacy, nounpapal, adjectivepapist, nounparable, nounparish, nounparish church, nounparish clerk, nounparishioner, nounparochial, adjectiveparochial school, nounparson, nounparsonage, nounpassion play, nounpastor, nounpatriarch, nounpatron saint, nounpenance, nounpenitent, nounPentecost, nounPentecostal, adjectiveperdition, nounPlymouth Brethren, nounpontiff, nounpontifical, adjectivepontificate, nounPope, nounprayer book, nounpredestination, nounprelate, nounPresbyterian, nounpresbytery, nounpriest, nounPrimate, nounprior, nounprioress, nounpriory, nounPromised Land, the, Protestant, nounpsalm, nounpsalmist, nounpsalter, nounpulpit, nounQuaker, nounRC, rector, nounrectory, nounredeem, verbredemption, nounrequiem, nounRev, Revd, Reverend, nounReverend Mother, nounrevival, nounrevival meeting, nounRoman Catholic, adjectiverood screen, nounrosary, nounsacrament, nounsacristan, nounsacristy, nounsaint, nounsainted, adjectivesainthood, nounsaint's day, nounsalvation, nounsanctuary, nounSatan, nounsave, verbschism, nounscriptural, adjectivesecular, adjectivesee, nounseminary, nounseraph, nounsermon, nounsexton, nounShrove Tuesday, nounsister, nounsisterhood, nounSJ, special licence, nounsteeple, nounstigmata, nounstoup, nounSunday school, nounsurplice, nounsynod, nountabernacle, nountestify, verbtransubstantiation, nounTrappist, noununfrock, verbUnitarian, nounvenial, adjectivevespers, nounvestment, nounvestry, nounvicar, nounvicarage, nounvotive, adjectivevow, nounVulgate, the, nounWhitsun, nounwimple, nounXmas, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► foreign/justice/finance etc ministry a Defence Ministry spokesman ► entered the ministry Converted in his early teens, he entered the ministry (=started working as a church leader) in 1855. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► federal · The Federal Chancellor's Office is the largest Federal ministry in terms of senior posts.· Seven of the 16 federal ministries will remain in Bonn after the move.· Most Federal ministries should be regarded as planning staffs rather than administrative line organizations.· All state and federal health ministries will also be required to review their work in the light of these goals and targets. ► foreign · The fostering of trade was preoccupying foreign ministries as never before.· In addition, the opposition demanded the foreign ministry and five other cabinet posts.· That decision was taken, in accordance with the law, after an opinion had been given by the foreign ministry.· That opinion was based on an interview Viza had with a foreign ministry official.· The training school in the Sardinian foreign ministry which was seriously considered at the end of the 1840s never came into existence.· In 1912 the foreign ministry calculated that a minimum of 15,000 marks was needed.· It was from the first bound up with the establishment of a foreign ministry archive. ► interior · No group immediately claimed responsibility and an interior ministry statement on the blast made no accusations.· Four senior officials in the Foreign Affairs and Interior ministries were dismissed or resigned over their role in granting him entry.· So the interior ministry is about to haul up the white flag.· The newspaper Trud revealed interior ministry data confirming that the pool of official cars rose by 23,500 last year to 605,290.· I heard on the television yesterday that thirty-five people had been sacked from the interior ministry so that may be an encouraging sign.· The environment has hitherto been a fief of the interior ministry. ► key · The key ministries of Defence and the Interior, however, remained in the hands of Maj.-Gen. ► new · Whitehall has also had to find office space and officials to staff the new ministries promised by both parties.· Charges of withholding information from the public about the condition of banks and thrifts are not new to the ministry.· The Green Party co-leader's new ministry combines agricultural responsibilities and consumer protection departments taken from other ministries.· The task of establishing and encouraging national cultural activities was pursued with some vigour by the new ministry. ► other · During the meetings ministers were not expected to raise objections to decisions affecting other ministries, much less to challenge the chair.· The second stage will involve the finance, education, housing and several other ministries.· He showed me that all my preaching, writing and other ministry was absolutely nothing compared to my love-relationship with him.· Several other senior ministry officials took pay cuts and were subject to disciplinary action. ► public · He did not, however, withdraw from the public ministry. ► senior · At Borderway on Tuesday county auctioneers are meeting a senior ministry official, Richard Cowan, to discuss the problems.· Several other senior ministry officials took pay cuts and were subject to disciplinary action. ► various · This would require, in the opinion of various ministry representatives, more government coordination than now exists. NOUN► agriculture · They include the departments of health, trade and industry and social security, the agriculture ministry, and local authorities.· The report, co-drafted with the agriculture ministry, also outlined the amount lent by agricultural cooperatives to the jusen. ► defence · The defence ministry refused to release his body to his family for a postmortem examination and radiation testing.· Itar-Tass news agency later quoted the defence ministry in Moscow as saying the report was groundless.· At one point Dostam used fighter bombers to attack the presidential palace and defence ministry.· The defence ministry was allocated $ 48m to pay electricity bills.· He sprayed two bursts of gunfire into a crowd outside the defence ministry and injured 10 people before he was fatally wounded.· But this pleased neither the defence ministry nor the navy who pointed out that it would merely sail back again.· The defence ministry denied the report. ► defense · Labor will control the foreign and defense ministries, along with several other cabinet posts. ► education · Even a sympathizer conceded that Aleksandr Golovnin possessed few qualifications for heading the education ministry.· Priority was given to the Health and Education ministries and a new budgetary allocation was created for road infrastructure. ► environment · The first meeting to discuss the settlement's elephant problem had been held in February 1982 at the environment ministry.· The environment ministry, to which it is ultimately responsible, supports it to the tune of almost 5m francs.· Researchers who want to register innovations in fighting marine pollution are directed by the environment ministry to Cedre.· A law to encourage the industry to take back and reuse its rubble has languished for three years in the environment ministry. ► finance · The number of deals will grow as the finance ministry eases restrictions on raising capital offshore.· Kiichi Miyazawa, the prime minister, used to work in the finance ministry, which oversees the tax office.· Few in the finance ministry will fret about this.· Reluctant to impose yet another local tax, the finance ministry has remained strongly opposed to the new measures.· In Tokyo and Paris finance ministries have stepped in to push through changes.· The hard men at the finance ministry have promised to review the austerity measures at the end of this month.· A group of experts commissioned by the finance ministry is thought to have recommended much self-regulation, as in London. ► health · All state and federal health ministries will also be required to review their work in the light of these goals and targets.· The health ministry has fixed the pharmacists' profit margin at 10 %.· Liberal Raffaele Costa was promoted to the health ministry.· Ten months after Edwina Currie raised the alarm as a health ministry Under-Secretary of State, researchers have not been idle.· The health ministry went to Ulla Schmidt, a deputy leader of the Social Democrat group in parliament.· The project he was involved with were abruptly terminated in 1994 by the health ministry.· The health ministry says it is forced to buy more expensive medicines from the big drug manufacturers because of international patent agreements.· The health ministry has launched an investigation. ► official · Interior ministry officials yesterday admitted that all main roads into Sarajevo were blocked after rebels had cut off the main northern route.· Finance ministry officials yesterday said at least six brokerages are under investigation for trading violations in the local Brady bond market.· At Borderway on Tuesday county auctioneers are meeting a senior ministry official, Richard Cowan, to discuss the problems.· If found guilty, the offending brokerages could be shuttered and officials imprisoned, ministry officials said.· That opinion was based on an interview Viza had with a foreign ministry official.· Most ministry officials are confident that their bureaucracy will survive in its current form.· Even foreign-ministry officials have begun to pay attention.· Several other senior ministry officials took pay cuts and were subject to disciplinary action. VERB► begin · Surviving these incidents, she says, led her to study, teach and begin her ministry.· Vicar makes a return A MUCH-TRAVELLED vicar is returning to the city where he began his ministry 30 years ago.· Travelling vicar goes full circle A MUCH-TRAVELLED vicar is returning to the city where he began his ministry 30 years ago.· As he began his ministry it was present in his person. ► enter · A career in commerce proved uncongenial, so he entered the General Baptist/Unitarian ministry. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► the ministry Nate felt called to the ministry. Word family WORD FAMILYnounministryministeradjectiveministerial 1[countable] a government department that is responsible for one of the areas of government work, such as education or healthministry of the Ministry of Agricultureforeign/justice/finance etc ministry a Defence Ministry spokesman2the ministry the profession of being a church leader, especially in the Protestant Church: Converted in his early teens, he entered the ministry (=started working as a church leader) in 1855.3[countable usually singular] the work done by a priest or other religious person as a result of their religious beliefs: the ministry of Jesus
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