kitchen cabinet

American  

noun

• kitchen cabinets
  plural

1. a cupboard built into a kitchen or a chest of drawers for kitchen use, as for dishes and silverware.

2. a group of unofficial advisers on whom a head of government appears to rely heavily.

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kitchen cabinet British  

noun

1. a group of unofficial advisers to a political leader, esp when considered to be more influential than the official cabinet

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• kitchen cabinets
  plural

Etymology

Origin of kitchen cabinet

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35

Example Sentences

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kitchen cabinet

A kitchen cabinet had come undone, and I needed a bracket and some glue to piece it back together.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

Be honest with yourself: Are you really going to use the dusty waffle maker in your kitchen cabinet?

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 23, 2026

Before the move, they had a comfortable life in a small beach town in northern Iran, where his father owned a kitchen cabinet factory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2026

Last May, Fabuwood, a kitchen cabinet manufacturer in Newark, instituted a new company policy: No phones allowed during meetings.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

I packed a bag of sour cream and onion chips that I found in our kitchen cabinet, an outdoor blanket for all of us to sit on, and a pack of playing cards.

From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks