Cabinet

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

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• IPA: /'kæbɪnɪt/

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1. A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
2. Patrono:Historical A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".
   • 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal In Bohemia, Norton (2005), p. 19,

     Holmes took a note of it. “One other question,” said he. “Was the photograph a cabinet?”

3. A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
4. Patrono:Politics 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.
5. (archaic) A small chamber or private room.
6. (often capitalized) a collection of art or ethnographic objects
7. Patrono:Dialectal milkshake

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• pie safe

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• armoire
• kitchen cabinet
• salon

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• bacinet

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From Italian gabinetto.

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• IPA: /kabinɛ/

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Cabinet m. (plural Cabinets)

1. (archaic) a study
2. an office, a surgery
3. a cabinet
4. a cabinet of government advisors
5. (in plural) the toilet, lavatory

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