Meanings
nounwar cabinet (plural war cabinets)
plural war cabinets
- capitalizedoftengovernmentA government committee formed in wartime to coordinate the war effort.
Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George was still holding meetings of the War Cabinet, a committee he had established on entering Downing Street three years earlier to put key decisions in the hands of a group of select ministers.
2020 January 2, Conrad Landin, “Strife and strikes in post-war Britain”, in Rail, page 51
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