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Definition of Shadow cabinet

1. Noun. A group of senior members of the political party that is out of power; these members would probably assume corresponding positions as ministers in the British Cabinet if their party was elected.

Definition of Shadow cabinet

1. Noun. (British) a senior group of opposition politicians who shadow the members of the government ¹

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Literary usage of Shadow cabinet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The House of Lords and Ideological Politics: Lord Salisbury's Referendal by Corinne Comstock Weston (1995)
"Taking a high view of his position in the shadow cabinet and on one occasion ... 281 reported that Selborne asked Balfour to call a shadow cabinet on the ..."

2. The House of Lords and Ideological Politics: Lord Salisbury's Referendal by Corinne Comstock Weston (1995)
"Taking a high view of his position in the shadow cabinet and on one occasion ... 281 reported that Selborne asked Balfour to call a shadow cabinet on the ..."

3. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"The parties influence government, they do not govern. No 'shadow cabinet' fronts the government ready to take office as as the ruling Cabinet is defeated. ..."

4. Power, Competition, and the State by Keith Middlemas (1986)
"There would be no revanchism. Meanwhile, reforms of the apparatus continued, insofar as Churchill allowed them. A shadow cabinet grew up, under the title of ..."

5. British Trade Unionism Against the Trades Union Congress by Gerald Allen Dorfman (1983)
"Political leaders do have a countervailing advantage that once they reach the top they tend to remain in the Cabinet or shadow Cabinet for relatively longer ..."

6. The Life of Benjamin Disraeli: Earl of Beaconsfield by William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle (1912)
"In the first days of the session of 1840 Peel invited him to attend what would now be called a' shadow Cabinet' — a conference of the principal members of ..."

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