Word Finder - cabinet

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A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.

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A cupboard.

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The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game, a cab.

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A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".

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A group of advisors to a government or business entity.

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(often capitalized) 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.

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A small chamber or private room.

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(often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects.

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(Rhode Island) Milkshake.

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A hut; a cottage; a small house.

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An enclosure for mechanical or electrical equipment.

The president of the Republic has a military household, and the minister a cabinet, both of which are occupied chiefly with questions of promotion, patronage and decorations.

She closed the cabinet door, troubled.

She pointed to the cabinet near the sink.

Fly down on Friday and we can put this whole thing in a file cabinet by the weekend.

Then came the scandal of the decorations in which President Grevy's son-in-law Daniel Wilson figured, and the Rouvier cabinet fell in the attempt to screen the president.

She opened one cabinet, not surprised to see white bone china.

He moved away, and she released her breath, resting her head against the cabinet in relief.

The cabinet is composed of eight ministers - the heads of the government departments of the interior, foreign affairs, finance, war, marine, justice, agriculture, and public works.

He tucked the pan into the cabinet.

She went to a cabinet and returned with a metal tray and a knife.

She watched him for a moment then crossed to the nearest cabinet.

Brady recognized him—he was another high-ranking politician in the President's cabinet.

Dan exclaimed happily, pulling chocolate out of the cabinet.

With meticulous care, Justin dried it and stored it in the cabinet.

He reappeared for a few months after General Pavia's coup d'Nat in January 1874, to join a coalition cabinet formed by Marshal Serrano, with Sagasta and Ulloa.

The head of the cabinet prepares for the consideration of the minister all the business of the navy, especially questions of general importance.

The letter from the auto insurance company lay abandoned on the kitchen cabinet.

Her knees buckled and hit the cabinet.

Dusty shouted as a chunk of stone crushed a stainless steel cabinet.

He paused in the dining room doorway, watching as Carmen stretched to put a glass in the cabinet.

At last he moved around the desk to a dark corner and withdrew a crystal carafe from a locked cabinet.

He tilted his head towards one cabinet in response.

On the 15th of December, when Schmerling and the Austrian members had left the cabinet, Gagern became head of the imperial ministry, and on the 18th he introduced a programme (known as the Gagernsche Programm) according to which Austria was to be excluded from the new federal state, but bound to it by a treaty of union.

He became by a singular arrangement, only repeated in the case of Lord Ellenborough, a member of the cabinet, and remained in that position through various changes of administration for nearly fifteen years, and, although he persistently refused the chancellorship, he acted as Speaker of the House of Lords while the Great Seal was in commission.

Seward gradually regained his health, and remained in the cabinet of President Johnson until the expiration of his term in 1869.

Upon Andrew Jackson's election to the presidency, the Telegraph became the principal mouthpiece of the administration, and received printing patronage estimated in value at $50,000 a year, while Green became one of the coterie of unofficial advisers of Jackson known as the "Kitchen Cabinet."

Immured in his castle at Pavia, accumulating wealth by systematic taxation and methodical economy, he organized the mercenary troops who eagerly took service under so good a paymaster; and, by directing their operations from his cabinet, he threatened the whole of Italy with conquest.

As finance minister in the Rattazzi cabinet of that year he had been confronted with a public debt of nearly 120,000,000, and with an immediate deficit of nearly 18,000,000.

In 1864, as minister in the La Marmora cabinet, he had again to face an excess of expenditure over income amounting to more that 14,600,000.

Ferrara, successor of Scialoja, met a like fate; but Count Cambray-Digny, finance minister in the Menabrea cabinet of 1868-1869, driven to find means to cover a deficit aggravated by the interest on the Venetian debt, succeeded, with Sellas help, in forcing a Grist Tax Bill through parliament, though in a form of which Sella could not entirely approve.

In the spring of 1873 it became evident that the days of the Lanza-Sella cabinet were numbered.

Sella, the real head of the Lanza cabinet, was worn out by four years continuous work and disheartened by the perfidious misrepresentation in which Italian politicians, particularly those of the Left, have ever excelled.

Practically, therefore, the Right, of which the Minghetti cabinet was the last representative administration, left Italian finance with a surplus of 80,000.

More noteworthy than its management of internal affairs were the efforts of the Minghetti cabinet to strengthen and consolidate national defence.

At the same time the cabinet, as a whole, brought in a Clerical Abuses Bill, threatening with severe punishment priests guilty of disturbing the peace of families, of opposing the laws of the state, or of fomenting disorder.

The first general election under the Left (November 1876) had yielded the cabinet the overwhelming majority of 421 Ministerialists against 87 Conservatives, but the very size of the majority rendered it unmanageable.

Successes achieved in those provinces failed, however, to save Nicotera from the wrath of the Chamber, and on the 14th of December 1877 a cabinet crisis arose over a question concerning the secrecy of telegraphic correspondence.

Even the coup detat of the 16th of May 1877 (when Macmahon dismissed the Jules Simon cabinet for opposing the Clerical petition) hardly availed to change the attitude of Depretis.

The entry of Crispi into the Depretis cabinet (December 1877) placed at the ministry of the interior a strong hand and sure eye at a moment when they were about to become im- CHspi.

The Depretis-Crispi cabinet did not long survive the opening of the new reign.

Though the cabinet had no stable majority, it induced the Chamber to sanction a commercial treaty which had been negotiated with France and a general autonomous customs tariff.

The general election of 1890 gave the cabinet an almost unwieldy majority, comprising four-fifths of the Chamber.

The rebuke infuriated the Conservative deputies, who, protesting against Crispis words in the name of the sacred memories of their party, precipitated a division and placed the cabinet in a minority.

A few days later he was succeeded in the premiership by the marquis di Rudini, leader of the Right, who formed a coalition cabinet with Nicotera and a part of the Left.

The country is rich in hard woods, suitable for cabinet work and certain building purposes.

These events disposed both Bonaparte and the British cabinet towards peace.

On the 4th of April the Addington cabinet made proposals with a view to compensation.

Sicily he was determined to have, and that too despite of all the efforts of the Fox-Grenville cabinet to satisfy him in every other direction.

The tsar indignantly repudiated a treaty which his envoy, Oubril, had been tricked into signing at Paris; and the Fox-Grenville cabinet (as also its successor) refused to bargain away Sicily.

He was transferred to the sinecure office of the Duchy of Lancaster, but held it only till Nov., when, on the appointment of a small war committee of the Cabinet from which he was excluded, he resigned, being unwilling to accept a position of general responsibility for war policy if he had no effective control.