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

Haines joined Wilson's Downing Street operation in 1969 during his first term in office and went on to become part of the Labour leader's "kitchen cabinet" of close political advisers.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025

Open the kitchen cabinet where the peanut butter was kept and you were face to fossil face with an extinct fox.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli