Definition of cabinet in English:

cabinet

noun ˈkabɪnɪtˈkæb(ə)nət

1A cupboard with shelves or drawers for storing or displaying articles.
a cocktail cabinet
Example sentencesExamples
- All the pots and pans, dishes and cups, and utensils were stored inside the drawers and cabinets in the kitchen.
- Have a think about the things in your cupboards and bathroom cabinets, and tell me this: Do you always buy the same kind of toothpaste?
- Glass cabinets display artefacts, documents, uniforms and photographs - most of the signage was in Japanese, though an English guidebook is available.
- The walls were lined with racks and shelves and cupboards and cabinets holding an assortment of equipment in organized rows.
- They kept their treasures in albums or collector boxes and stored them in cabinets and drawers.
- There were file cabinets scattered in all sides of the room, and also drawers, cabinets, and tall shelves.
- They went through cabinets, shelves and drawers, pulling out professional looking documents and files.
- At the bottom of the stairs there was a cabinet with a cupboard underneath and a mirror on top of it.
- The weapons were stored in various cabinets behind glass and the rest was open space.
- The blast smashed the windows of the store and of the apartment above it, and damaged glass cabinets in the store and the metal door to the storage room.
- She was on her own in a large room filled with desks and glass cabinets on the wall full of unpleasant looking things in jars and bottles.
- The huge old kitchen was rife with cabinets and cubbies, drawers and cupboards, shelves and pie-safes, and each one had been crammed full.
- Shelves and cabinets and glass houses held a countless array of arms and equipment.
- Here are photographs of a family elder on display in a glass cabinet.
- It is now on display in a glass cabinet in the Basilica itself.
- A housekeeper polishes a glass cabinet displaying delicate mementos from Norway and New Zealand.
- These then are displayed in white glass cabinets.
- One cabinet with glass doors displayed relics from other lands and other times, fascinating trinkets.
- These were in all shapes and sizes, colours and textures, and she had them stored in a custom-made cabinet, drawer upon drawer of them.
- Tasty and attractively-presented food is displayed in glass fronted cabinets.
Synonyms
cupboard
case, container
1. 1.1 A wooden box or piece of furniture housing a radio, television set, or speaker.
  Example sentencesExamples
  But why would someone want ceiling or in wall speakers, instead of a pair of normal, efficient and highly affordable speaker cabinets.
  The loudspeaker resembled a 30s valve radio in that it had a large speaker grille and a wooden cabinet and seemed to have been created for the schools market.
  In an era when most speaker cabinets are mass-produced, the handmade finish on the all-wood Abby is startling in its beauty.
  The planned new mast features six antennae, two telecommunications dishes, and at ground level, radio equipment cabinets and ancillary development.
  I also made some speaker cabinets and bunk beds.
  We took the amplifier up to my bedroom and then dad insisted on helping us carry the speaker cabinet up the stairs.
  The living room overlooks the front garden through a double glazed picture window and has a built-in wooden bookshelf and entertainment cabinet.
  Their wall of speaker cabinets was impressive.
  Only on the bodies of the most dashing Italian motorcyclists does one now see leather in such flamboyant combinations, and only on the cases of treasured antique radio cabinets can one find such florid marquetry.
  I left my position by the door and grabbed the other side of the speaker cabinet, helping to manoeuvre it forward corner by corner.
  The speaker cabinets in this type of system normally have passive crossover networks.
  There is also a humorous undercurrent as Seventies rock iconography gets a look-in with speaker cabinets of all shapes of sizes.
  Street furniture, utility cabinets and junction boxes are next up on the cleaning agenda.
  Today high density polyethylene, with its linear chains, is used for radio and television cabinets, toys, and large-diameter pipes.
  And while he doesn't exactly pole vault and swing over the towering speaker cabinets anymore, he doesn't stay in one place either.
  He later entered the field of industrial design and soon was producing everything from chairs and radio cabinets to models of streamlined planes and ships.
  The speaker cabinets were positioned on stage as a string quartet would be positioned.
  It wants to put up a 15m timber monopole with three antennae and a microwave dish, together with equipment cabinets and a radio base station.
  A radio cabinet casts a bomb-shaped shadow across the floor, while the specter of a tank shimmers in the room beyond.
  The speaker cabinet was a huge four by twelve affair, about the size and weight of a small van.
2(in the UK, Canada, and other Commonwealth countries) the committee of senior ministers responsible for controlling government policy.
as modifier a cabinet meeting
Example sentencesExamples
- He chairs the meetings of the cabinet and appoints numerous ministers to the committees.
- A ban had been decided at a cabinet committee meeting on April 6.
- The performance of the cabinet and the parliamentary party would tend to support that view.
- He fought to push it through parliament and past a sceptical cabinet committee.
- She said she would be delighted to report back to the cabinet sub committee to tell them, this is what they are doing, now what are going to do for them.
- Before he became prime minister, he had also headed the powerful education and industries ministries as well as the cabinet committee on economic affairs.
- As a result, the new prime minister, his cabinet and the National Assembly will be virtually powerless.
- Last week's decision was the culmination of weeks of bitter wrangling between the new First Minister, senior cabinet colleagues and champions of the game.
- The inter ministerial group will forward the proposal to the cabinet committee on disinvestment for approval.
- But controversially, it emerged the council leader, senior cabinet colleagues and possibly opposition leaders may in future be paid a salary.
- In the meantime parliament had not been able to meet and the full cabinet and ministry had not been appointed.
- At this stage, the draft bill for the commercialisation of the directorate of civil aviation is with the cabinet committee on draft legislation.
- The leader of the majority party in the Lower House is named prime minister and governs with a cabinet of ministers.
- The finance minister and senior cabinet colleagues believe that otherwise crèche fees will increase and negate the effect of more child benefit and tax breaks.
- It's a cabinet government of which ministers take responsibility in their own areas.
- The reform of the executive branch of government should aim at making the cabinet fully responsible to the parliament.
- He is first minister of a cabinet in a parliamentary democracy.
- If his proposed constitutional changes come into force, he will be able to change the prime minister and dissolve the cabinet and parliament unilaterally.
- He has retained a cabinet post as senior minister since second-generation PAP leaders came to power.
- The government consists of the prime minister, his or her deputies, and the ministers who make up the cabinet; the cabinet is the supreme body of executive power.
1. 2.1 (in the US) a body of advisers to the president, composed of the heads of the executive departments of the government.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Washington correspondent outstays Presidents and cabinets.
  These cars are to be used for the President and his cabinet when they evacuate.
  However, I guess I'd still lay long odds against it happening, since even bipartisan cabinets have mostly gone the way of the dodo bird these days.
  And I think where I come in on that is I've got to trust my president and his cabinet and intelligence and military people.
  If taken seriously, his words could be interpreted as a threat against the life of the president and his entire cabinet.
  Commissioners each have their own private staff or circle of advisers called a cabinet.
  Executive power is vested in a cabinet headed by a president who is head of state and commander in chief.
  As far as they have been concerned, reliance on staff has served their purposes better than a system that relies on the cabinet or the executive branch departments.
  Following are a few books that will prove invaluable to presidents and cabinet level advisors who want to make the Madisonian policymaking processes work.
  So I've been working on it myself, and I've had some advisers from my cabinet when I was president, as well as some Carter Center folks.
  I want you to listen to what the president told his cabinet at the White House earlier this week, because he finessed a clearly, clearly dangerous situation.
  The president continues restocking his cabinet.
  Executive authority is vested in a cabinet led by the prime minister.
  The president appointed the cabinet and governed largely by decree.
  In addition, the president dissolved his cabinet and said he would constitute a new government.
  The Republicans also discussed giving federal financial support to the Texas and Pacific railroad and appointing some Democrats to the cabinet.
  Similarly, within the executive branch, most cabinet meetings are closed to the public.
  The president, his cabinet, the Pentagon brass, and leading members of Congress remain adamantly opposed to conscription.
  I congratulate the new President and his new cabinet.
  At the national level, government leadership resides in the president and his cabinet.
  Synonyms
  senior ministers, ministry, council, counsellors, administration, executive
  inner circle
  senate
3archaic A small private room.
Example sentencesExamples
- In square footage they equal nearly half the area of the bedroom, cabinet, and book room.
- Decisions are often made behind closed doors - in cabinet or board room - sometimes overseas.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from cabin + -et¹, influenced by French cabinet.

The modern meaning of ‘a piece of furniture’ developed from the original sense ‘little cabin’ or ‘small room’. The use for the body of chief ministers who meet to discuss government policy dates from the 17th century. Confidential advisers of the monarch or chief ministers used to hold their meetings in a private room, and in time the term for the room was applied to the politicians themselves. Compare board

Definition of cabinet in US English:

cabinet

nounˈkab(ə)nətˈkæb(ə)nət

1A cupboard with shelves or drawers for storing or displaying articles.
a medicine cabinet
Example sentencesExamples
- The weapons were stored in various cabinets behind glass and the rest was open space.
- The huge old kitchen was rife with cabinets and cubbies, drawers and cupboards, shelves and pie-safes, and each one had been crammed full.
- There were file cabinets scattered in all sides of the room, and also drawers, cabinets, and tall shelves.
- At the bottom of the stairs there was a cabinet with a cupboard underneath and a mirror on top of it.
- They kept their treasures in albums or collector boxes and stored them in cabinets and drawers.
- They went through cabinets, shelves and drawers, pulling out professional looking documents and files.
- She was on her own in a large room filled with desks and glass cabinets on the wall full of unpleasant looking things in jars and bottles.
- The blast smashed the windows of the store and of the apartment above it, and damaged glass cabinets in the store and the metal door to the storage room.
- These were in all shapes and sizes, colours and textures, and she had them stored in a custom-made cabinet, drawer upon drawer of them.
- The walls were lined with racks and shelves and cupboards and cabinets holding an assortment of equipment in organized rows.
- One cabinet with glass doors displayed relics from other lands and other times, fascinating trinkets.
- Tasty and attractively-presented food is displayed in glass fronted cabinets.
- All the pots and pans, dishes and cups, and utensils were stored inside the drawers and cabinets in the kitchen.
- Shelves and cabinets and glass houses held a countless array of arms and equipment.
- A housekeeper polishes a glass cabinet displaying delicate mementos from Norway and New Zealand.
- Glass cabinets display artefacts, documents, uniforms and photographs - most of the signage was in Japanese, though an English guidebook is available.
- Have a think about the things in your cupboards and bathroom cabinets, and tell me this: Do you always buy the same kind of toothpaste?
- Here are photographs of a family elder on display in a glass cabinet.
- These then are displayed in white glass cabinets.
- It is now on display in a glass cabinet in the Basilica itself.
Synonyms
cupboard
1. 1.1 A wooden box or piece of furniture housing a radio, television set, or speaker.
  Example sentencesExamples
  In an era when most speaker cabinets are mass-produced, the handmade finish on the all-wood Abby is startling in its beauty.
  Street furniture, utility cabinets and junction boxes are next up on the cleaning agenda.
  The planned new mast features six antennae, two telecommunications dishes, and at ground level, radio equipment cabinets and ancillary development.
  And while he doesn't exactly pole vault and swing over the towering speaker cabinets anymore, he doesn't stay in one place either.
  Today high density polyethylene, with its linear chains, is used for radio and television cabinets, toys, and large-diameter pipes.
  Their wall of speaker cabinets was impressive.
  The speaker cabinet was a huge four by twelve affair, about the size and weight of a small van.
  I left my position by the door and grabbed the other side of the speaker cabinet, helping to manoeuvre it forward corner by corner.
  The speaker cabinets in this type of system normally have passive crossover networks.
  It wants to put up a 15m timber monopole with three antennae and a microwave dish, together with equipment cabinets and a radio base station.
  A radio cabinet casts a bomb-shaped shadow across the floor, while the specter of a tank shimmers in the room beyond.
  He later entered the field of industrial design and soon was producing everything from chairs and radio cabinets to models of streamlined planes and ships.
  Only on the bodies of the most dashing Italian motorcyclists does one now see leather in such flamboyant combinations, and only on the cases of treasured antique radio cabinets can one find such florid marquetry.
  I also made some speaker cabinets and bunk beds.
  We took the amplifier up to my bedroom and then dad insisted on helping us carry the speaker cabinet up the stairs.
  The speaker cabinets were positioned on stage as a string quartet would be positioned.
  There is also a humorous undercurrent as Seventies rock iconography gets a look-in with speaker cabinets of all shapes of sizes.
  The living room overlooks the front garden through a double glazed picture window and has a built-in wooden bookshelf and entertainment cabinet.
  But why would someone want ceiling or in wall speakers, instead of a pair of normal, efficient and highly affordable speaker cabinets.
  The loudspeaker resembled a 30s valve radio in that it had a large speaker grille and a wooden cabinet and seemed to have been created for the schools market.
2(in the UK, Canada, and other Commonwealth countries) the committee of senior ministers responsible for controlling government policy.
Example sentencesExamples
- The government consists of the prime minister, his or her deputies, and the ministers who make up the cabinet; the cabinet is the supreme body of executive power.
- A ban had been decided at a cabinet committee meeting on April 6.
- ‘He chairs the meetings of the
- In the meantime parliament had not been able to meet and the full cabinet and ministry had not been appointed.
- Last week's decision was the culmination of weeks of bitter wrangling between the new First Minister, senior cabinet colleagues and champions of the game.
- Before he became prime minister, he had also headed the powerful education and industries ministries as well as the cabinet committee on economic affairs.
- He fought to push it through parliament and past a sceptical cabinet committee.
- The leader of the majority party in the Lower House is named prime minister and governs with a cabinet of ministers.
- The inter ministerial group will forward the proposal to the cabinet committee on disinvestment for approval.
- She said she would be delighted to report back to the cabinet sub committee to tell them, this is what they are doing, now what are going to do for them.
- He is first minister of a cabinet in a parliamentary democracy.
- But controversially, it emerged the council leader, senior cabinet colleagues and possibly opposition leaders may in future be paid a salary.
- It's a cabinet government of which ministers take responsibility in their own areas.
- As a result, the new prime minister, his cabinet and the National Assembly will be virtually powerless.
- He has retained a cabinet post as senior minister since second-generation PAP leaders came to power.
- The reform of the executive branch of government should aim at making the cabinet fully responsible to the parliament.
- The finance minister and senior cabinet colleagues believe that otherwise crèche fees will increase and negate the effect of more child benefit and tax breaks.
- If his proposed constitutional changes come into force, he will be able to change the prime minister and dissolve the cabinet and parliament unilaterally.
- The performance of the cabinet and the parliamentary party would tend to support that view.
- At this stage, the draft bill for the commercialisation of the directorate of civil aviation is with the cabinet committee on draft legislation.
1. 2.1 (in the US) a body of advisers to the president, composed of the heads of the executive departments of the government.
  as modifier a cabinet meeting
  Example sentencesExamples
  Commissioners each have their own private staff or circle of advisers called a cabinet.
  Following are a few books that will prove invaluable to presidents and cabinet level advisors who want to make the Madisonian policymaking processes work.
  At the national level, government leadership resides in the president and his cabinet.
  The president appointed the cabinet and governed largely by decree.
  Executive authority is vested in a cabinet led by the prime minister.
  If taken seriously, his words could be interpreted as a threat against the life of the president and his entire cabinet.
  The president continues restocking his cabinet.
  The Washington correspondent outstays Presidents and cabinets.
  The president, his cabinet, the Pentagon brass, and leading members of Congress remain adamantly opposed to conscription.
  I congratulate the new President and his new cabinet.
  And I think where I come in on that is I've got to trust my president and his cabinet and intelligence and military people.
  These cars are to be used for the President and his cabinet when they evacuate.
  In addition, the president dissolved his cabinet and said he would constitute a new government.
  As far as they have been concerned, reliance on staff has served their purposes better than a system that relies on the cabinet or the executive branch departments.
  I want you to listen to what the president told his cabinet at the White House earlier this week, because he finessed a clearly, clearly dangerous situation.
  Similarly, within the executive branch, most cabinet meetings are closed to the public.
  So I've been working on it myself, and I've had some advisers from my cabinet when I was president, as well as some Carter Center folks.
  However, I guess I'd still lay long odds against it happening, since even bipartisan cabinets have mostly gone the way of the dodo bird these days.
  The Republicans also discussed giving federal financial support to the Texas and Pacific railroad and appointing some Democrats to the cabinet.
  Executive power is vested in a cabinet headed by a president who is head of state and commander in chief.
  Synonyms
  senior ministers, ministry, council, counsellors, administration, executive
3archaic A small private room.
Example sentencesExamples
- Decisions are often made behind closed doors - in cabinet or board room - sometimes overseas.
- In square footage they equal nearly half the area of the bedroom, cabinet, and book room.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from cabin + -et, influenced by French cabinet.

单词	cabinet
释义	Definition of cabinet in English: cabinet noun ˈkabɪnɪtˈkæb(ə)nət 1A cupboard with shelves or drawers for storing or displaying articles. a cocktail cabinet Example sentencesExamples All the pots and pans, dishes and cups, and utensils were stored inside the drawers and cabinets in the kitchen. Have a think about the things in your cupboards and bathroom cabinets, and tell me this: Do you always buy the same kind of toothpaste? Glass cabinets display artefacts, documents, uniforms and photographs - most of the signage was in Japanese, though an English guidebook is available. The walls were lined with racks and shelves and cupboards and cabinets holding an assortment of equipment in organized rows. They kept their treasures in albums or collector boxes and stored them in cabinets and drawers. There were file cabinets scattered in all sides of the room, and also drawers, cabinets, and tall shelves. They went through cabinets, shelves and drawers, pulling out professional looking documents and files. At the bottom of the stairs there was a cabinet with a cupboard underneath and a mirror on top of it. The weapons were stored in various cabinets behind glass and the rest was open space. The blast smashed the windows of the store and of the apartment above it, and damaged glass cabinets in the store and the metal door to the storage room. She was on her own in a large room filled with desks and glass cabinets on the wall full of unpleasant looking things in jars and bottles. The huge old kitchen was rife with cabinets and cubbies, drawers and cupboards, shelves and pie-safes, and each one had been crammed full. Shelves and cabinets and glass houses held a countless array of arms and equipment. Here are photographs of a family elder on display in a glass cabinet. It is now on display in a glass cabinet in the Basilica itself. A housekeeper polishes a glass cabinet displaying delicate mementos from Norway and New Zealand. These then are displayed in white glass cabinets. One cabinet with glass doors displayed relics from other lands and other times, fascinating trinkets. These were in all shapes and sizes, colours and textures, and she had them stored in a custom-made cabinet, drawer upon drawer of them. Tasty and attractively-presented food is displayed in glass fronted cabinets. Synonyms cupboard case, container 1.1 A wooden box or piece of furniture housing a radio, television set, or speaker. Example sentencesExamples But why would someone want ceiling or in wall speakers, instead of a pair of normal, efficient and highly affordable speaker cabinets. The loudspeaker resembled a 30s valve radio in that it had a large speaker grille and a wooden cabinet and seemed to have been created for the schools market. In an era when most speaker cabinets are mass-produced, the handmade finish on the all-wood Abby is startling in its beauty. The planned new mast features six antennae, two telecommunications dishes, and at ground level, radio equipment cabinets and ancillary development. I also made some speaker cabinets and bunk beds. We took the amplifier up to my bedroom and then dad insisted on helping us carry the speaker cabinet up the stairs. The living room overlooks the front garden through a double glazed picture window and has a built-in wooden bookshelf and entertainment cabinet. Their wall of speaker cabinets was impressive. Only on the bodies of the most dashing Italian motorcyclists does one now see leather in such flamboyant combinations, and only on the cases of treasured antique radio cabinets can one find such florid marquetry. I left my position by the door and grabbed the other side of the speaker cabinet, helping to manoeuvre it forward corner by corner. The speaker cabinets in this type of system normally have passive crossover networks. There is also a humorous undercurrent as Seventies rock iconography gets a look-in with speaker cabinets of all shapes of sizes. Street furniture, utility cabinets and junction boxes are next up on the cleaning agenda. Today high density polyethylene, with its linear chains, is used for radio and television cabinets, toys, and large-diameter pipes. And while he doesn't exactly pole vault and swing over the towering speaker cabinets anymore, he doesn't stay in one place either. He later entered the field of industrial design and soon was producing everything from chairs and radio cabinets to models of streamlined planes and ships. The speaker cabinets were positioned on stage as a string quartet would be positioned. It wants to put up a 15m timber monopole with three antennae and a microwave dish, together with equipment cabinets and a radio base station. A radio cabinet casts a bomb-shaped shadow across the floor, while the specter of a tank shimmers in the room beyond. The speaker cabinet was a huge four by twelve affair, about the size and weight of a small van. 2(in the UK, Canada, and other Commonwealth countries) the committee of senior ministers responsible for controlling government policy. as modifier a cabinet meeting Example sentencesExamples He chairs the meetings of the cabinet and appoints numerous ministers to the committees. A ban had been decided at a cabinet committee meeting on April 6. The performance of the cabinet and the parliamentary party would tend to support that view. He fought to push it through parliament and past a sceptical cabinet committee. She said she would be delighted to report back to the cabinet sub committee to tell them, this is what they are doing, now what are going to do for them. Before he became prime minister, he had also headed the powerful education and industries ministries as well as the cabinet committee on economic affairs. As a result, the new prime minister, his cabinet and the National Assembly will be virtually powerless. Last week's decision was the culmination of weeks of bitter wrangling between the new First Minister, senior cabinet colleagues and champions of the game. The inter ministerial group will forward the proposal to the cabinet committee on disinvestment for approval. But controversially, it emerged the council leader, senior cabinet colleagues and possibly opposition leaders may in future be paid a salary. In the meantime parliament had not been able to meet and the full cabinet and ministry had not been appointed. At this stage, the draft bill for the commercialisation of the directorate of civil aviation is with the cabinet committee on draft legislation. The leader of the majority party in the Lower House is named prime minister and governs with a cabinet of ministers. The finance minister and senior cabinet colleagues believe that otherwise crèche fees will increase and negate the effect of more child benefit and tax breaks. It's a cabinet government of which ministers take responsibility in their own areas. The reform of the executive branch of government should aim at making the cabinet fully responsible to the parliament. He is first minister of a cabinet in a parliamentary democracy. If his proposed constitutional changes come into force, he will be able to change the prime minister and dissolve the cabinet and parliament unilaterally. He has retained a cabinet post as senior minister since second-generation PAP leaders came to power. The government consists of the prime minister, his or her deputies, and the ministers who make up the cabinet; the cabinet is the supreme body of executive power. 2.1 (in the US) a body of advisers to the president, composed of the heads of the executive departments of the government. Example sentencesExamples The Washington correspondent outstays Presidents and cabinets. These cars are to be used for the President and his cabinet when they evacuate. However, I guess I'd still lay long odds against it happening, since even bipartisan cabinets have mostly gone the way of the dodo bird these days. And I think where I come in on that is I've got to trust my president and his cabinet and intelligence and military people. If taken seriously, his words could be interpreted as a threat against the life of the president and his entire cabinet. Commissioners each have their own private staff or circle of advisers called a cabinet. Executive power is vested in a cabinet headed by a president who is head of state and commander in chief. As far as they have been concerned, reliance on staff has served their purposes better than a system that relies on the cabinet or the executive branch departments. Following are a few books that will prove invaluable to presidents and cabinet level advisors who want to make the Madisonian policymaking processes work. So I've been working on it myself, and I've had some advisers from my cabinet when I was president, as well as some Carter Center folks. I want you to listen to what the president told his cabinet at the White House earlier this week, because he finessed a clearly, clearly dangerous situation. The president continues restocking his cabinet. Executive authority is vested in a cabinet led by the prime minister. The president appointed the cabinet and governed largely by decree. In addition, the president dissolved his cabinet and said he would constitute a new government. The Republicans also discussed giving federal financial support to the Texas and Pacific railroad and appointing some Democrats to the cabinet. Similarly, within the executive branch, most cabinet meetings are closed to the public. The president, his cabinet, the Pentagon brass, and leading members of Congress remain adamantly opposed to conscription. I congratulate the new President and his new cabinet. At the national level, government leadership resides in the president and his cabinet. Synonyms senior ministers, ministry, council, counsellors, administration, executive inner circle senate 3archaic A small private room. Example sentencesExamples In square footage they equal nearly half the area of the bedroom, cabinet, and book room. Decisions are often made behind closed doors - in cabinet or board room - sometimes overseas. Origin Mid 16th century: from cabin + -et¹, influenced by French cabinet. The modern meaning of ‘a piece of furniture’ developed from the original sense ‘little cabin’ or ‘small room’. The use for the body of chief ministers who meet to discuss government policy dates from the 17th century. Confidential advisers of the monarch or chief ministers used to hold their meetings in a private room, and in time the term for the room was applied to the politicians themselves. Compare board Definition of cabinet in US English: cabinet nounˈkab(ə)nətˈkæb(ə)nət 1A cupboard with shelves or drawers for storing or displaying articles. a medicine cabinet Example sentencesExamples The weapons were stored in various cabinets behind glass and the rest was open space. The huge old kitchen was rife with cabinets and cubbies, drawers and cupboards, shelves and pie-safes, and each one had been crammed full. There were file cabinets scattered in all sides of the room, and also drawers, cabinets, and tall shelves. At the bottom of the stairs there was a cabinet with a cupboard underneath and a mirror on top of it. They kept their treasures in albums or collector boxes and stored them in cabinets and drawers. They went through cabinets, shelves and drawers, pulling out professional looking documents and files. She was on her own in a large room filled with desks and glass cabinets on the wall full of unpleasant looking things in jars and bottles. The blast smashed the windows of the store and of the apartment above it, and damaged glass cabinets in the store and the metal door to the storage room. These were in all shapes and sizes, colours and textures, and she had them stored in a custom-made cabinet, drawer upon drawer of them. The walls were lined with racks and shelves and cupboards and cabinets holding an assortment of equipment in organized rows. One cabinet with glass doors displayed relics from other lands and other times, fascinating trinkets. Tasty and attractively-presented food is displayed in glass fronted cabinets. All the pots and pans, dishes and cups, and utensils were stored inside the drawers and cabinets in the kitchen. Shelves and cabinets and glass houses held a countless array of arms and equipment. A housekeeper polishes a glass cabinet displaying delicate mementos from Norway and New Zealand. Glass cabinets display artefacts, documents, uniforms and photographs - most of the signage was in Japanese, though an English guidebook is available. Have a think about the things in your cupboards and bathroom cabinets, and tell me this: Do you always buy the same kind of toothpaste? Here are photographs of a family elder on display in a glass cabinet. These then are displayed in white glass cabinets. It is now on display in a glass cabinet in the Basilica itself. Synonyms cupboard 1.1 A wooden box or piece of furniture housing a radio, television set, or speaker. Example sentencesExamples In an era when most speaker cabinets are mass-produced, the handmade finish on the all-wood Abby is startling in its beauty. Street furniture, utility cabinets and junction boxes are next up on the cleaning agenda. The planned new mast features six antennae, two telecommunications dishes, and at ground level, radio equipment cabinets and ancillary development. And while he doesn't exactly pole vault and swing over the towering speaker cabinets anymore, he doesn't stay in one place either. Today high density polyethylene, with its linear chains, is used for radio and television cabinets, toys, and large-diameter pipes. Their wall of speaker cabinets was impressive. The speaker cabinet was a huge four by twelve affair, about the size and weight of a small van. I left my position by the door and grabbed the other side of the speaker cabinet, helping to manoeuvre it forward corner by corner. The speaker cabinets in this type of system normally have passive crossover networks. It wants to put up a 15m timber monopole with three antennae and a microwave dish, together with equipment cabinets and a radio base station. A radio cabinet casts a bomb-shaped shadow across the floor, while the specter of a tank shimmers in the room beyond. He later entered the field of industrial design and soon was producing everything from chairs and radio cabinets to models of streamlined planes and ships. Only on the bodies of the most dashing Italian motorcyclists does one now see leather in such flamboyant combinations, and only on the cases of treasured antique radio cabinets can one find such florid marquetry. I also made some speaker cabinets and bunk beds. We took the amplifier up to my bedroom and then dad insisted on helping us carry the speaker cabinet up the stairs. The speaker cabinets were positioned on stage as a string quartet would be positioned. There is also a humorous undercurrent as Seventies rock iconography gets a look-in with speaker cabinets of all shapes of sizes. The living room overlooks the front garden through a double glazed picture window and has a built-in wooden bookshelf and entertainment cabinet. But why would someone want ceiling or in wall speakers, instead of a pair of normal, efficient and highly affordable speaker cabinets. The loudspeaker resembled a 30s valve radio in that it had a large speaker grille and a wooden cabinet and seemed to have been created for the schools market. 2(in the UK, Canada, and other Commonwealth countries) the committee of senior ministers responsible for controlling government policy. Example sentencesExamples The government consists of the prime minister, his or her deputies, and the ministers who make up the cabinet; the cabinet is the supreme body of executive power. A ban had been decided at a cabinet committee meeting on April 6. ‘He chairs the meetings of the In the meantime parliament had not been able to meet and the full cabinet and ministry had not been appointed. Last week's decision was the culmination of weeks of bitter wrangling between the new First Minister, senior cabinet colleagues and champions of the game. Before he became prime minister, he had also headed the powerful education and industries ministries as well as the cabinet committee on economic affairs. He fought to push it through parliament and past a sceptical cabinet committee. The leader of the majority party in the Lower House is named prime minister and governs with a cabinet of ministers. The inter ministerial group will forward the proposal to the cabinet committee on disinvestment for approval. She said she would be delighted to report back to the cabinet sub committee to tell them, this is what they are doing, now what are going to do for them. He is first minister of a cabinet in a parliamentary democracy. But controversially, it emerged the council leader, senior cabinet colleagues and possibly opposition leaders may in future be paid a salary. It's a cabinet government of which ministers take responsibility in their own areas. As a result, the new prime minister, his cabinet and the National Assembly will be virtually powerless. He has retained a cabinet post as senior minister since second-generation PAP leaders came to power. The reform of the executive branch of government should aim at making the cabinet fully responsible to the parliament. The finance minister and senior cabinet colleagues believe that otherwise crèche fees will increase and negate the effect of more child benefit and tax breaks. If his proposed constitutional changes come into force, he will be able to change the prime minister and dissolve the cabinet and parliament unilaterally. The performance of the cabinet and the parliamentary party would tend to support that view. At this stage, the draft bill for the commercialisation of the directorate of civil aviation is with the cabinet committee on draft legislation. 2.1 (in the US) a body of advisers to the president, composed of the heads of the executive departments of the government. as modifier a cabinet meeting Example sentencesExamples Commissioners each have their own private staff or circle of advisers called a cabinet. Following are a few books that will prove invaluable to presidents and cabinet level advisors who want to make the Madisonian policymaking processes work. At the national level, government leadership resides in the president and his cabinet. The president appointed the cabinet and governed largely by decree. Executive authority is vested in a cabinet led by the prime minister. If taken seriously, his words could be interpreted as a threat against the life of the president and his entire cabinet. The president continues restocking his cabinet. The Washington correspondent outstays Presidents and cabinets. The president, his cabinet, the Pentagon brass, and leading members of Congress remain adamantly opposed to conscription. I congratulate the new President and his new cabinet. And I think where I come in on that is I've got to trust my president and his cabinet and intelligence and military people. These cars are to be used for the President and his cabinet when they evacuate. In addition, the president dissolved his cabinet and said he would constitute a new government. As far as they have been concerned, reliance on staff has served their purposes better than a system that relies on the cabinet or the executive branch departments. I want you to listen to what the president told his cabinet at the White House earlier this week, because he finessed a clearly, clearly dangerous situation. Similarly, within the executive branch, most cabinet meetings are closed to the public. So I've been working on it myself, and I've had some advisers from my cabinet when I was president, as well as some Carter Center folks. However, I guess I'd still lay long odds against it happening, since even bipartisan cabinets have mostly gone the way of the dodo bird these days. The Republicans also discussed giving federal financial support to the Texas and Pacific railroad and appointing some Democrats to the cabinet. Executive power is vested in a cabinet headed by a president who is head of state and commander in chief. Synonyms senior ministers, ministry, council, counsellors, administration, executive 3archaic A small private room. Example sentencesExamples Decisions are often made behind closed doors - in cabinet or board room - sometimes overseas. In square footage they equal nearly half the area of the bedroom, cabinet, and book room. Origin Mid 16th century: from cabin + -et, influenced by French cabinet.
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