shadow cabinet

Noun

Meaning

a group of senior members of the political party that is out of power; these members would probably assume corresponding positions as ministers in the British Cabinet if their party was elected

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

council ministry divan cabinet privy council camarilla kitchen cabinet inner circle Advisory Committee advisory board shadow government opposition party informal group of advisers unofficial advisers opposition politicians
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Antonyms

agreement trust consent ease harmony satisfaction
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Hypernyms

cabinet

Examples

There is no such thing as the Shadow Cabinet. It is purely a Press term. The Prime Minister is by no means bound to include the members of the Shadow Cabinet in his Cabinet, or even in the Government. I myself left several out. Clement Attlee

Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of Change has blown. My own vote goes to Hugh Kingsmill as leader of this opposition. Hugh Kingsmill

Mr Turnbull declined this proposition so I advised that I would have no alternative but to resign from the Shadow Cabinet as I was not able to support the CPRS legislation. Nick Minchin

As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case. William Hague

I have never commented on a caucus issue or a shadow Cabinet issue, and I'm not about to start now. David Cunliffe

During a tense moment in a Labour leadership debate, the shadow foreign secretary said she and Sir Keir Starmer had called for the shadow cabinet to be more involved in tackling the party's anti-Semitism problem. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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