cabinet

Meaning

Noun

• A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
• A cupboard.
• 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.
• A small chamber or private room.
• (often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
• Milkshake.
• A hut; a cottage; a small house.
• An enclosure for mechanical or electrical equipment.

Related

Similar words

• cabinet agency, cabinet department, program cabinet , superagency

Origin

• From cabin + -et, influenced by French cabinet.
• In sense of “a government group”, compare salon, also named for a room used to gather.