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| Main Entry: |
ministry
 [min-uh-stree] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the functions of the clergy |
| Synonyms: | exhortation, pastoral care, prayer, preaching, spiritual leadership |
| Main Entry: | ministry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a department of state |
| Synonyms: | administrative agency, bureau, department, executive branch |
| Main Entry: | abbey |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | building that houses monks, nuns, or priests; church |
| Synonyms: | cloister, convent, friary, ministry, monastery, nunnery, priory, temple |
Example Sentences
- The ministry of internal affairs is conducting an embezzlement investigation.
- Later he ran the posts and telecommunications ministry, a forerunner of today's information-industry ministry.
- Foreign affairs used to be the business of the pro-detente foreign ministry.
| Main Entry: | administration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human or group who manages effort of an organization |
| Synonyms: | admiral, advisers, board, bureau, cabinet, chair, chairperson, chargé d'affaires, command, commander, committee, consulate, department, directors, embassy, executive, executives, feds, front office, general, governing body, headquarters, legislature, management, ministry, officers, officials, powers, presidency, president, presidium, stewards, superintendents, supervisors, top brass, upstairs |
| Main Entry: | aid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, support |
| Synonyms: | advancement, advice, advocacy, alleviation, allowance, assist, assistance, attention, backing, backup, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, bounty, care, charity, comfort, compensation, cooperation, deliverance, encouragement, endowment, favor, furtherance, gift, giving, guidance, hand, handout, leg up, lift, ministration, ministry, patronage, promotion, reinforcement, relief, rescue, reward, salvation, service, shot in the arm, subsidy, sustenance, treatment |
| Notes: | aid is assistance or a source of assistance; aide is an assistant |
| Antonyms: | blockage, hindrance, impediment, injury, obstruction |
| Main Entry: | bureaucracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | system which controls organization |
| Synonyms: | administration, authority, beadledom, city hall, civil service, directorate, government, management, ministry, officialdom, officials, powers that be, red tape, regulatory commission, the Establishment, the system |
| Main Entry: | cabinet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | executives serving a leader |
| Synonyms: | administration, administrators, advisers, assembly, assistants, authority, brain trust, bureau, bureaucracy, committee, council, counselors, department heads, governing body, government, kitchen cabinet, ministry, official family |
| Main Entry: | channel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | means |
| Synonyms: | agency, agent, approach, avenue, course, instrument, instrumentality, instrumentation, medium, ministry, organ, route, vehicle, way |
| Main Entry: | consulate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | embassy |
| Synonyms: | consular office, government office, ministry |
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