About The Word Ministry
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Ministry
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What's The Definition Of Ministry?
[n] building where the business of a government ministry is transacted
[n] religious ministers collectively (especially Presbyterian) [n] a government department under the direction of a minister Synonyms | Synonyms for Ministry: Related Terms | Find terms related to Ministry: administration | advisory council | agency | agent | aid | assistance | attendance | auspices | bailiwick | benefit | bureau | bureaucracy | cabinet | camarilla | care | channel | charge | clergy | clerical order | clericals | comfort | commissariat | constablery | constablewick | constabulary | council | council of state | cure | custodianship | custody | department | directorate | divan | ease | employ | employment | good offices | governance | government | guardianship | guidance | hands | help | hierarchy | higher echelons | higher-ups | holy orders | instrument | instrumentality | instrumentation | jurisdiction | keeping | kitchen cabinet | management | mean | medium | ministration | municipality | office | offices | officialdom | organ | oversight | pastorage | pastorate | pastorship | patronage | peonage | prelacy | presbytery | priestery | priesthood | privy council | protection | protectorship | rabbinate | relief | religion | remedy | rescue | ruling class | ruling classes | sacred calling | Sacred College | safe hands | secretariat | serfdom | service | servitium | servitorship | servitude | shadow cabinet | sheriffalty | sheriffwick | shrievalty | slavery | stewardship | succor | support | tendance | the administration | the authorities | the church | the cloth | the Establishment | the ingroup | the interests | the people upstairs | the power elite | the power structure | the pulpit | the top | them | therapy | they | top brass | tutelage | vehicle | ward | wardenship | wardship | watch and ward | wing See Also | building | edifice | foreign office | government department | priesthood Ministry In Webster's Dictionary \Min"is*try\, n.; pl. Ministries . [L. ministerium. See
{Minister}, n., and cf. {Mystery} a trade.]
1. The act of ministering; ministration; service. ``With
tender ministry.'' --Thomson.
2. Hence: Agency; instrumentality.
The ordinary ministry of second causes. --Atterbury.
The wicked ministry of arms. --Dryden.
3. The office, duties, or functions of a minister, servant,
or agent; ecclesiastical, executive, or ambassadorial
function or profession.
4. The body of ministers of state; also, the clergy, as a
body.
5. Administration; rule; term in power; as, the ministry of
Pitt.
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