cabinetable

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

cabinet +‎ -able

Adjective[edit]

cabinetable (comparative more cabinetable, superlative most cabinetable)

  1. Able to be appointed to a cabinet position of government without arousing controversy.
    • 1898 July 30, Rene Doumic, “The Cabinetable Man”, in The Living Age, volume 218, number 2821, page 343:
      But he will be as cabinetable after the catastrophe as he was before.
    • 1963, Joseph A. Mikuš, Slovakia: A Political History: 1918-1950, page 23:
      The same persons in the Agrarian and Social-Democratic parties remained perpetually “cabinetable.”
    • 1977, Francisc Păcurariu, The Labyrinth, page 94:
      But his position of cabinetable politician was protracted until after the war, for Brătianu himself was far from insensible to Saint Aulaire's arguments, and war on Germany was declared.