BRITISH CABINET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does British Cabinet mean? 

• BRITISH CABINET (noun)
  The noun BRITISH CABINET has 1 sense:

1. the senior ministers of the British government

  Familiarity information: BRITISH CABINET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRITISH CABINET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The senior ministers of the British government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("British Cabinet" is a kind of...):

cabinet (persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers)

Meronyms (members of "British Cabinet"):

PM; premier; Prime Minister (the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom)

Chancellor; Chancellor of the Exchequer (the British cabinet minister responsible for finance)

Chief Secretary (a member of the British Cabinet)

Home Secretary; Secretary of State for the Home Department (the British cabinet minister who is head of the Home Office)

Lord Privy Seal (the senior cabinet minister in the British Cabinet who has no official duties)

First Lord of the Treasury; Treasury (the British cabinet minister responsible for economic strategy)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)