minister without portfolio
Noun
Meaning
minister without portfolio (plural ministers without portfolio or ministers without portfolios)
(government) A member of a government having the rank of cabinet minister, but not assigned to oversee a particular government department or other permanent area of responsibility.
Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:government minister
Examples
First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.
He has embarrassed the government. By continuing as minister without portfolio he has earned himself a price for silence.
Finally, Mikhail Abyzov, who was a minister without portfolio in the previous government and the head of the Open Government Commission, is not included in the new government.
The parti philosophique was supported by the Marquise de Pompadour, who acted as a sort of minister without portfolio from the time she became royal mistress in 1745 until her death in 1764.
Rise to power Shortly after returning to Taiwan, Lee joined the KMT in 1971 and was made a cabinet minister without portfolio responsible for agriculture.
Within weeks of his entry to parliament, he was made a minister without portfolio in a new minority Nationalist State government led by Premier William McPherson.