shadow cabinet

1. 1.

   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

   Broadercabinet

   United Kingdom

Questions about shadow cabinet

What does shadow cabinet mean?

shadow cabinet means "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".

Is shadow cabinet a common word?

shadow cabinet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.