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3 N‑COUNT [oft N n] The Cabinet is a group of the most senior ministers in a government, who meet regularly to discuss policies. □  The announcement came after a three-hour Cabinet meeting. □  …a former Cabinet Minister. COLLOCATIONS cabinet NOUN

1

noun + cabinet : bathroom, bedside, kitchen; display, drinks, medicine, trophy

adjective + cabinet : glass, glass-fronted, wooden

3

adjective + Cabinet : shadow

verb + Cabinet : announce, appoint, form, name; reshuffle

ca bi|net mak|er (cabinet makers ) also cabinetmaker N‑COUNT A cabinet maker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.

ca|ble ◆◇◇ /ke I b ^ə l/ (cables , cabling , cabled )

1 N‑VAR A cable is a thick wire, or a group of wires inside a rubber or plastic covering, which is used to carry electricity or electronic signals. □  …overhead power cables. □  …strings of coloured lights with weatherproof cable.

2 N‑VAR A cable is a kind of very strong, thick rope, made of wires twisted together. □  …the heavy anchor cable. □  Steel cable will be used to replace worn ropes.

3 N‑UNCOUNT [oft N n] Cable is used to refer to television systems in which the signals are sent along underground wires rather than by radio waves. □  They ran commercials on cable systems across the country. □  The channel is only available on cable.

4 N‑COUNT A cable is the same as a telegram . □  She sent a cable to her mother.

5 VERB [usu passive] If a country, a city, or someone's home is cabled , cables and other equipment are put in place so that the people there can receive cable television. □ [be V -ed] In France, 27 major cities are soon to be cabled. □ [V -ed] In the U.K., 254,000 homes are cabled.

6 → see also cabling

ca |ble car (cable cars ) N‑COUNT A cable car is a vehicle for taking people up mountains or steep hills. It is pulled by a moving cable.

ca |ble te le|vi|sion N‑UNCOUNT Cable television is a television system in which signals are sent along wires rather than by radio waves.

ca|bling /ke I bl I ŋ/

1 N‑UNCOUNT Cabling is used to refer to electrical or electronic cables, or to the process of putting them in a place. □  …modern offices equipped with computer cabling.

2 → see also cable

cache /kæ ʃ/ (caches )

1 N‑COUNT A cache is a quantity of things such as weapons that have been hidden. □  A huge arms cache was discovered by police. □ [+ of ] …a cache of weapons and explosives.

2 N‑COUNT A cache or cache memory is an area of computer memory that is used for temporary storage of data and can be accessed more quickly than the main memory. [COMPUTING ] □  The least accessed data in cache memory is replaced by newly accessed data.

ca|chet /kæ ʃe I , [AM ] kæʃe I / N‑SING If someone or something has a certain cachet , they have a quality which makes people admire them or approve of them. [WRITTEN , APPROVAL ] □  A Mercedes carries a certain cachet.

cack-handed /kæ k hæ nd I d/ ADJ If you describe someone as cack-handed , you mean that they handle things in an awkward or clumsy way. [BRIT , INFORMAL , DISAPPROVAL ] □  …the cack-handed way they handled the incident.

cack|le /kæ k ^ə l/ (cackles , cackling , cackled ) VERB If someone cackles , they laugh in a loud unpleasant way, often at something bad that happens to someone else. □ [V ] The old lady cackled, pleased to have produced so dramatic a reaction. [Also V with quote, V at n] ● N‑COUNT Cackle is also a noun. □  He let out a brief cackle.

ca|copho|nous /kəkɒ fənəs/ ADJ [usu ADJ n] If you describe a mixture of sounds as cacophonous , you mean that they are loud and unpleasant. □  …the cacophonous beat of pop music.