cabinet
Plural: cabinets
Noun
- A piece of furniture with shelves or drawers for storage.
- a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display
- persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers
- a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock
- housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television
- A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
- A cupboard.
- A source of valuable things; a storehouse.
- The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game, a cab.
- A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".
- A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
- 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.
- 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.
- A cabinet-level agency in the executive branch; that is, an agency headed by a member of the governor's cabinet.
- A small chamber or private room.
- A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
- Milkshake.
- A hut; a cottage; a small house.
- An enclosure for mechanical or electrical equipment.
Examples
- Her strategy involved a full CABINET of tricks, from two-letter words to bingos.
Origin / Etymology
From cabin + -et, influenced by French cabinet.
In sense of “a government group”, compare salon, also named for a room used to gather.
Synonyms
console, locker, storage locker, cabinet agency, cabinet department, program cabinet, superagency
Scrabble Score: 11
cabinet: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcabinet: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cabinet: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary