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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A group of unofficial advisers to the head of a government.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Built-in cabinet found in a kitchen.
  2. n. informal An informal group of advisors to a country's chief executive, as distinguished from the official cabinet.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an inner circle of unofficial advisors to the head of a government

Etymologies

  1. From the story that President Andrew Jackson met with his unofficial cabinet in the White House kitchen. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Next to Ole Smokey sat an ancient kitchen cabinet outfitted with metal bins for flour, sugar, coffee, and tea.”

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  • “At one end, the end where Cousin Ann was ironing, stood the kitchen stove, gleaming black, with a tea-kettle humming away on it, a big hot-water boiler near it, and a large kitchen cabinet with lots of drawers and shelves and hooks and things.”

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  • “She looked in my kitchen cabinet and saw stacks of cans of Heinz Vegetarian Beans.”

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Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. clique
  1. inner circle
  1. camp
  1. in-group
  1. coterie
  1. pack

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  1. countertop

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