minister

[zone: 1, ipm: 270.48]

Definitions

  • a senior member of the government who is in charge of a government department or a branch of one

Examples

  1. The head of government is the prime minister, generally the leader of the governing political party in Parliament.
  2. Blair was the British Prime minister from 1997 to 2007.
  3. The duties of the minister of foreign affairs devolve on the minister of education.
  4. President Bush and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain were attending a conference in Colorado shortly after the attack.
  5. Both the Prime Minister and the Colonial Secretary were earnest believers in colonial self-government for the well-advanced dominions.

Collocations

  • prime [score: 12.18, freq: 583] (the prime minister)
  • plenipotentiary [score: 10.28, freq: 23] (minister plenipotentiary)
  • majesty [score: 9.97, freq: 42] (his majesty's ministers)
  • finance [score: 9.54, freq: 35] (minister of finance)
  • justice [score: 9.31, freq: 50] (minister of justice)
  • king [score: 9.23, freq: 52] (the king's ministers)
  • affair [score: 9.06, freq: 53] (minister of foreign affairs)
  • foreign [score: 8.65, freq: 127] (the foreign ministers)
  • propose [score: 8.52, freq: 36] (proposed by ministers)
  • appoint [score: 8.49, freq: 61] (appointed minister)
  • Prussia [score: 8.47, freq: 34] (minister of Prussia)
  • Thugut [score: 8.38, freq: 5] (minister Thugut)
  • Prussian [score: 8.16, freq: 49] (the highly-conservative Prussian interior minister)
  • French [score: 8.11, freq: 165] (the French minister)
  • Gladstone [score: 8.11, freq: 5] (minister William Gladstone)
  • Austrian [score: 8.08, freq: 48] (the Austrian minister)
  • English [score: 8, freq: 88] (the English minister)
  • cabinet [score: 7.86, freq: 25] (cabinet minister)
  • British [score: 7.8, freq: 145] (the British minister)
  • chief [score: 7.74, freq: 47] (chief minister)
  • Australian [score: 7.64, freq: 26] (Australian ministers)
  • Crown [score: 7.53, freq: 10] (minister of the Crown)
  • Spanish [score: 7.35, freq: 31] (the Spanish minister)
  • censure [score: 7.18, freq: 8] (censuring ministers)
  • Canadian [score: 7.14, freq: 21] (Canadian ministers)
  • Russian [score: 7.12, freq: 34] (the Russian minister)
  • government [score: 7.12, freq: 21] (the government minister)
  • highly-conservative [score: 7.09, freq: 14] (highly-conservative ministers)
  • interior [score: 7, freq: 14] (interior minister)
  • subordinate [score: 6.94, freq: 14] (the subordinate ministers)
  • govern [score: 6.74, freq: 10] (governed by the minister)
  • countersign [score: 6.74, freq: 7] (countersigned by the responsible minister)
  • summon [score: 6.46, freq: 7] (summoned the ministers)
  • resign [score: 6.32, freq: 6] (ministers resigned)
  • Napoleon [score: 5.91, freq: 5] (Napoleon's minister)

Thesaurus

  • officer [score: 0.337, freq: 8934]
  • general [score: 0.321, freq: 7504]
  • prince [score: 0.312, freq: 12311]
  • emperor [score: 0.302, freq: 13757]
  • member [score: 0.285, freq: 9196]
  • government [score: 0.282, freq: 28006]
  • person [score: 0.282, freq: 13012]
  • monarch [score: 0.279, freq: 6876]
  • friend [score: 0.276, freq: 9141]
  • party [score: 0.271, freq: 11219]
  • leader [score: 0.27, freq: 5490]
  • king [score: 0.27, freq: 26488]
  • ambassador [score: 0.266, freq: 3205]
  • majesty [score: 0.26, freq: 6983]
  • governor [score: 0.256, freq: 4323]
  • court [score: 0.256, freq: 9879]
  • ally [score: 0.247, freq: 4936]
  • soldier [score: 0.247, freq: 8297]
  • Napoleon [score: 0.246, freq: 14107]
  • man [score: 0.243, freq: 43782]

Translations

Russian министр (0.948)
Czech ministr (0.692)