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GOVERNMENT MINISTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person appointed to a high office in the government
Example:
Minister of Finance
Synonyms:
government minister; minister
Classified under:
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))
