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GOVERNMENT MINISTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does government minister mean? 

GOVERNMENT MINISTER (noun)
  The noun GOVERNMENT MINISTER has 1 sense:

1. a person appointed to a high office in the governmentplay

  Familiarity information: GOVERNMENT MINISTER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GOVERNMENT MINISTER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A person appointed to a high office in the government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

government minister; minister

Context example:

Minister of Finance

Hypernyms ("government minister" is a kind of...):

executive; executive director (a person responsible for the administration of a business)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "government minister"):

cabinet minister (a person who is a member of the cabinet)

finance minister; minister of finance (the minister responsible for state finances)

foreign minister; secretary of state (a government minister for foreign relations)

Instance hyponyms:

Haman ((Old Testament) the minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them)

Ahmed Zoki Yamani; Yamani (Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum who was a central figure in the creation of OPEC (born in 1930))


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