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Cabinet   /kˈæbənət/  /kˈæbnət/   Listen
Cabinet

noun
1.
A piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display.
2.
Persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers.
3.
A storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock.  Synonyms: locker, storage locker.
4.
Housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television.  Synonym: console.



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"Cabinet" Quotes from Famous Books



... your majesty to do so," said the commissioner, somewhat bluntly; "and if your majesty will only take the entire cabinet with you, I have little doubt but that the benefit to yourself and your ministers will be most heartily acknowledged and thoroughly appreciated by your subjects on your ...
— Working in the Shade - Lowly Sowing brings Glorious Reaping • Theodore P Wilson

... have been to the Museum. Below is the "Royal Cabinet" of curiosities, and above are the pictures. Some of the former were very interesting. The hat, doublet, etc. in which William the Silent was murdered—the pistol, two bullets, etc., and a copy of Balthazar Geraardt's condemnation, and his watch, on which ...
— Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books • Horatia K. F. Eden

... II. he was not in the Hall of the Hohenzollerns, indulging his vein of extravagant romance, but in his private cabinet and in his ...
— The International Spy - Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War • Allen Upward

... a strong Federal Department of Education of cabinet rank, with ample means and strong powers to be the guiding genius of all our state and local departments of education, with greater attention paid to a more thorough and concrete training in civics, in moral and ethical education, in addition to the other well recognized branches ...
— The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit • Ralph Waldo Trine

... our office, and I think no evil to me. So at my office late, and then home to supper and to bed. Mr. Grey did assure me this night, that he was told this day, by one of the greater Ministers of State in England, and one of the King's Cabinet, that we had little left to agree on between the Dutch and us towards a peace, but only the place of treaty; which do astonish me to hear, but I am glad of it, for I fear the consequence of the war. But he says that the King, having ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys


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