Minister-without-portfolio Definition

noun

(politics) A member of a government having the rank of cabinet minister, but not assigned to oversee a particular government department or other permanent area of responsibility.

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Noun

Singular:
minister-without-portfolio
Plural:
ministers-without-portfolio, ministers without portfolios

Minister-without-portfolio Sentence Examples

  • In 1868 he became a Prussian minister without portfolio.

  • He was minister without portfolio in the Berry cabinet (1880-1881), and as minister of education in the coalition government of 1886 to 1890 he was able to pass into law many of the recommendations of his report.

  • The ambitious medical establishment created by him was subjected to a good deal of criticism on the score of economy during 1920; and on the reconstruction of the Ministry in March 1921 he was transferred from the new department to become once more a minister without portfolio.

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