cabinet

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cabinet/ˈkabɪnət/

▶noun

• 1 a cupboard with drawers or shelves for storing or displaying articles.

  ■ a wooden box, container, or piece of furniture housing a radio, television set, or speaker.

• 2 (also Cabinet) (in the UK, Canada, and other Commonwealth countries) the committee of senior ministers responsible for controlling government policy.

  ■ (in the US) a body of advisers to the President, composed of the heads of the executive departments of the government.

– derivatives
cabinetry noun.

– origin C16: from cabin + -et1, influenced by Fr. cabinet; sense 2 derives from the obs. sense ‘a small private room’.