minister without portfolio

noun

, plural ministers without portfolios.

a minister of state who is not appointed to any specific department in a government.

First recorded in 1910–15

Yisrael Galili, a minister without portfolio, sought a “fitting response” to the U.N. in the settlement committee he chaired.

What does a Minister without portfolio do when he comes to work?

Dr. Murray approved the idea, and thought that the Minister without Portfolio might give up loafing and take to fishing.

He was now "minister without portfolio" in the Schreiner Ministry.

Yet he only held office for six months—as minister without portfolio in the Scanlen ministry from May to November 1881.

He then became what is known on the continent as a minister without portfolio.

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