cabinet

cabinet

cabinet [furniture]

A piece of furniture with doors and shelves or drawers that is used for storing things or for showing attractive objects

US /ˈkæb.ən.ət/ 
UK /ˈkæb.ɪ.nət/ 

کابینت، بوفه

مثال: 

kitchen cabinets

A piece of furniture with doors and shelves or drawers that is used for storing things or for showing attractive objects

معادل فارسی: 

کابینت، بوفه

مثال انگلیسی: 

kitchen cabinets

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Oxford Essential Dictionary

cabinet

 noun

1 (plural cabinets) a piece of furniture that you can keep things in:
a bathroom cabinet
a filing cabinet (= one that you use in an office to keep documents in)

2 the Cabinet (no plural) a group of the most important people in the government

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

cabinet

cabinet S2 W2 /ˈkæbənət, ˈkæbɪnət/ noun [countable]
 [Date: 1500-1600; Language: French; Origin: 'small room', from Old North French cabine 'room for gambling']
 1. (also Cabinet) [also + plural verb] British English the politicians with important positions in a government who meet to make decisions or advise the leader of the government:
   • a cabinet meeting
   • a member of the Cabinet Shadow Cabinet at shadow3(2)
 2.

   a piece of furniture with doors and shelves or drawers, used for storing or showing things SYN cupboard:
   • the medicine cabinet
  ⇨ filing cabinet
     • • •

COLLOCATIONS■ cabinet + NOUN

   ▪ a cabinet meetingA cabinet meeting will consider the government's environmental policies.
   ▪ a cabinet member/a member of the cabinetTwo senior cabinet members have resigned.
   ▪ a cabinet ministerCabinet ministers voted against the proposal.
   ▪ a cabinet reshuffle (=when members of a cabinet are given a different job)Putin promoted his Defence Minister in a surprising cabinet reshuffle.
   ▪ a cabinet post (=a job in a cabinet)She accepted a cabinet post with the new Conservative government.

■ verbs

   ▪ appoint a cabinetThe Prime Minister appoints the cabinet.
   ▪ form a cabinetMinisters remain in office until a new cabinet is formed.
   ▪ join a cabinetLee was considered a likely candidate to join the cabinet.
   ▪ the cabinet meetsThe cabinet will meet again on April 30th.

■ adjectives

   ▪ the inner cabinet (=only the most important members)He was a member of Howard's inner cabinet.
   ▪ the full cabinet (=all the members)There was a meeting of the full cabinet.
   ▪ the shadow cabinet (=the most important members of the opposition party)He joined the shadow cabinet as transport spokesman.

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

cabinet

cab·inet [cabinet cabinets]   [ˈkæbɪnət]    [ˈkæbɪnət]  noun

1. (usually the Cabinet) countable + singular or plural verb a group of chosen members of a government, which is responsible for advising and deciding on government policy

• a cabinet meeting

• (BrE) a cabinet minister

• (BrE) the shadow Cabinet (= the most important members of the opposition party)

2. countable a piece of furniture with doors, drawers and/or shelves, that is used for storing or showing things

• kitchen cabinets

• a medicine cabinet

• The china was displayed in a glass cabinet.

see also  filing cabinet 

 

Word Origin:

mid 16th cent.: from cabin  + -et, influenced by French cabinet.

 

Culture:

the Cabinet

In Britain, the Cabinet is a committee responsible for deciding government policy and for coordinating the work of government departments. It consists of about 20 ministers chosen by the Prime Minister and meets for a few hours each week at Downing Street. Its members are bound by oath not to talk about the meetings. Reports are sent to government departments but these give only summaries of the topics discussed and decisions taken. They do not mention who agreed or disagreed. The principle of collective responsibility means that the Cabinet acts unanimously (= all together), even if some ministers do not agree. When a policy has been decided, each minister is expected to support it publicly or resign. In recent years, prime ministers have changed the members of their Cabinet quite often in Cabinet reshuffles. Some members are dropped, new ones are brought in, and the rest are given new departmental responsibilities.

The leader of the main opposition party forms a shadow cabinet of shadow ministers, each with a particular area of responsibility, so that there is a team ready to take over immediately if the party in power should be defeated.

Committees are appointed by the Cabinet to examine issues in more detail than the Cabinet has time for. Members of these committees are not necessarily politicians. The Cabinet Office led by the Secretary to the Cabinet, the most senior civil servant in Britain, prepares agendas for Cabinet meetings and committees.

In the US the Cabinet consists of the heads of the 15 departments that make up the executive branch of the federal government. Each president appoints the department heads, called secretaries, from his or her own party, and they give advice on policy. Since the Cabinet was not established by the Constitution, the President can add, remove or combine departments, and can decide when to ask the Cabinet for advice, and whether or not to follow it.

State governments are usually organized in a similar way to the national government, and most have a cabinet.

 

Example Bank:

• Past reports are kept in the filing cabinet in my office.

• The Prime Minister reshuffled= changed his Cabinet yesterday.

• The affair led to a mid-term Cabinet reshuffle.

• The defeat in the vote forced the Cabinet to change its policy on immigration.

• The inner Cabinet is to meet again today.

• The prime minister reshuffled his Cabinet yesterday.

• There was a meeting of the full Cabinet this afternoon.

• a glass china cabinet

• He is a member of the Shadow Cabinet.

• Several cabinet ministers have been implicated in the scandal.

• She lost her position as Health Minister in a recent cabinet reshuffle.

• The issue was discussed at yesterday's cabinet meeting.

• There's a medicine cabinet in the bathroom.

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cabinet

Cabinet (GOVERNMENT), cabinet /ˈkæb.ɪ.nət/
group noun [C usually singular]
a small group of the most important people elected to government, who make the main decisions about what should happen:
The Cabinet meet/meets every Thursday.
a cabinet minister.
The Prime Minister has announced a cabinet reshuffle (= changes in the Cabinet).

cabinet

cabinet (FURNITURE) /ˈkæb.ɪ.nət/
noun [C]
a piece of furniture with shelves, cupboards, or drawers, which is used for storing or showing things:
Valuable pieces of china were on display in a glass-fronted cabinet.
a bathroom/filing cabinet

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

cabinet

/kæbɪnɪt/
(cabinets)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.
A cabinet is a cupboard used for storing things such as medicine or alcoholic drinks or for displaying decorative things in.
He looked at the display cabinet with its gleaming sets of glasses.
N-COUNT: usu n N
see also filing cabinet

2.
The Cabinet is a group of the most senior ministers in a government, who meet regularly to discuss policies.
The announcement came after a three-hour Cabinet meeting in Downing Street.
...a former Cabinet Minister.
N-COUNT: oft N n

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary: 

cabinet

cab·i·net /ˈkæbnɪt/ noun, pl -nets [count]
1 : a piece of furniture that is used for storing things and usually has doors and shelves
• a kitchen/medicine cabinet
- see also file cabinet
2 or Cabinet : a group of people who give advice to the leader of a government
• the British cabinet
• a member of the President's Cabinet
✦In British English, cabinet in this sense is sometimes used with a plural verb.
• The Cabinet are meeting now.

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