Topic: GOVERNMENT
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| Date: | 1500-1600 |
| Language: | French |
| Origin: | 'small room', from Old North French cabine 'room for gambling' |
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cab‧i‧net S2 W2
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[countable]1 also Cabinet [also + plural verb] British EnglishPG the politicians with important positions in a government who meet to make decisions or advise the leader of the government : 
a cabinet meetinga member of the Cabinet
a cabinet meetinga member of the Cabinet2DHH a piece of furniture with doors and shelves or drawers, used for storing or showing things [= cupboard]: the medicine cabinet
the medicine cabinet