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Privy council
A body of advisers to a sovereign, functioning much as a cabinet.
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A body of advisers to a sovereign, functioning much as a cabinet.
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| Word | Definition |
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| cabinetnoun | A group of advisors to a government or business entity. |
| parliamentnoun | In many countries, the legislative branch of government, a deliberative assembly or set of assemblies whose elected or appointed members meet to debate the major political issues of the day, make, amend, and repeal laws, authorize the executive branch of government to collect and spend money, and in some cases exercise judicial powers; a legislature. |
| king's counselnoun | (UK, Canada, New Zealand, occasionally Australia) An honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer) during the reign of a king. |
| privy pursenoun | (British) The amount of money the monarch may use for private or personal expenses |
| order of councilnoun | A UK legislative instrument made by the Lord's of the Privy Council (in practice Government Ministers). |
| ante-cabinetnoun | (architecture, obsolete, rare) A large saloon placed before the chamber in which the council of a prince or state hold private consultations. |
| kitchen cabinetnoun | A built-in cabinet found in a kitchen. |
| queen's counselnoun | (UK, Canada, New Zealand, occasionally Australia) An honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer) during the reign of a queen. |
| courtnoun | An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. |
| prerogative courtnoun | (historical) A court through which the discretionary powers, privileges, and legal immunities reserved to the sovereign were exercised. |
| councilistnoun | A communist who advocates workers' councils |
| amapakatinoun | The council or inner circle of advisers of a chief in a Nguni society. |
| subcouncilnoun | A secondary or subsidiary council. |
| parlamentnoun | Obsolete form of parliament. [(now chiefly historical) A formal council summoned (especially by a monarch) to discuss important issues.] |
| inner cabinetnoun | The (often informal) inner circle within a cabinet (which may itself by an official inner circle within a government or council of ministers) which includes only the ministers (or secretaries of state etc.) who are closest to the executive head of state, prime minister or equivalent (notably presiding) officer |
| advisershipnoun | The status or office of an adviser. |
| brain trustnoun | (chiefly US) Originally, a group of experts who advise a government, often informally. |
| viceroynoun | One who governs a country, province, or colony as the representative of a monarch. |
| cabinet ministernoun | (politics) A member of the executive branch of a government who has been appointed to the cabinet, the group of leading policy makers, advisers, and overseers of governmental departments who report to the prime minister. |
| counselnoun | The exchange of opinions and advice especially in legal issues; consultation. |
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