Other forms: cabinets
The cabinet is the group of senior ministers who run a government together. The prime minister and the heads of the big departments.
They meet weekly, and cabinet responsibility means that once a decision is made they all defend it in public whatever they said in the room. Being in the cabinet is the top of a political career, and a reshuffle changes who sits where. The word also means a cupboard, particularly a display one, and a filing cabinet is the one every office has. Both senses come from the idea of a small private room.
French
cabinet
English, today
cabinet
From cabin + et, influenced by French cabinet. In sense of “a government group”, compare salon, also named for a room used to gather.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA