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Cabinet

noun

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. Synonyms: locker, storage locker.

Housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television. Synonym: console.

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"Cabinet" Quotes from Famous Books

... friends of the measure. But when Mr. Fox and Lord Granville took office in 1806, the abolition was brought forward by the ministers, most of whom supported it, though it was not made a government question in consequence of several members of the cabinet opposing it. The attorney-general (Sir A. Pigott) brought in a bill, which was passed into a law, prohibiting the slave trade in the conquered colonies, and excluding British subjects from engaging in the foreign slave trade; and Mr. Fox at Mr. Wilberforce's ...

— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 • Various

... from a cabinet?" he asked. Just as he spoke that question, an electric bell rang somewhere to the rear of the drawing-room. Mrs. Markham sat unmoving for an instant, as though considering either the sound or his question. The bell tinkled no more. After a moment, ...

— The House of Mystery • William Henry Irwin

... she is a fascinating woman. I was only thinking, as to this appropriation, now, what such a woman could do in Washington. All correct, too, all correct. Common thing, I assure you in Washington; the wives of senators, representatives, cabinet officers, all sorts of wives, and some who are not wives, use their influence. You want an appointment? Do you go to Senator X? Not much. You get on the right side of his wife. Is it an appropriation? You'd go 'straight to ...

— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

... everybody. Says he has met the scholar in politics before. Do you remember how he took care of that kid-gloved aggregation which tried to run him out of business a year or so ago? He dumped this distinguished kicker into the cabinet, had another made a plenipotentiary, foisted off number three into some windy commission on the other side of the planet, and so on down the list. They said it seemed to be in the air that ...

— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther

... are exceedingly common, and I might fill a large number of pages with figures and descriptions of the variety which the ingenuity of the cabinet-makers of the fifteenth century managed to impart to combinations of a screw and two or more tables. I will content myself with one more example (fig. 144) which shews the screw exceedingly well, and the ...

— The Care of Books • John Willis Clark

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