Get to know Minister better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like executive or pastor.
Minister in a sentence
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Minister meaning
- A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church.
- A person (either a layperson or an ordained clergy member) who is commissioned to perform some act on behalf of the Catholic Church.
- A politician who heads a ministry
Synonyms of Minister
Minister vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Minister
- The main meaning on this page is: A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies, and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church. | A person (either a layperson or an ordained clergy member) who is commissioned to perform some act on behalf of the Catholic Church. | A politician who heads a ministry
- Useful related words include: curate, public service, diplomatist, diplomat.
- Possible Dutch translations are: dienaar.
- In the example corpus, minister often appears in combinations such as: prime minister, minister of, chief minister.
Example sentences (20)
Key members of the previous cabinet, such as Home Minister Amit Shah, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Roads and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, and Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, retained their portfolios.
Other leaders on the call were Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis.
Hitting out at the Prime Minister, he said: “While Manipur is burning, the Prime Minister is silent, the Home Minister is ineffective, and the Chief Minister is non-functional.
Those lists of potential candidates include Freeland, Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, Housing Minister Sean Fraser, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Treasury Board President Anita Anand.
Photo: National Security Minister and Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister and MP Stuart Young (right) has a word with Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Defence Minister Pervez Khattak, Federal Minister for Defence Production Zubaida Jalal and Finance Minister Asad Umar will also attend the meeting.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday named Nirmala Sitharaman, previously the country's defence minister, as the next finance minister, while the chief of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Amit Shah, will become a home minister.
The GoM comprises finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, commerce and railway minister Piyush Goyal, external affairs minister S Jaishankar and petroleum and steel minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
Those at the meeting included the Finance, Budget and National planning Minister, Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, the Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Silva.
Hinds was accompanied by former Minister of Local Government, Kellawan Lall; former Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Sukhai; former Minister of Health Dr. Bheri Ramsarran and former Minister of Housing Irfaan Ali.
Prime Minister Sherif Ismail, Minister of Health and Population Ahmed Emad el Din, Minister of Finance Amr el Garhy and Deputy Minister of Finance for Public Treasury Affairs Mohamed Maait took part in the meeting.
Revenue Minister NC Debbarma, Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath, Forest Minister Mever Kumar Jamatia and Sports Minister Manoj Kanti Deb were present in the inaugural function.
The Head of State was received by Foreign Affairs minister Joe Malanji, Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya, National Development Planning Minister Alexander Chiteme and Gender Minister Elizabeth Phiri.
The prime minister was accompanied by Defence Minister Pervez Khattak, Foreign Affairs Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Finance Minister Asad Umar among others.
Along with his position as Sultan, he is prime minister, defense minister, finance minister, foreign affairs minister and chair of the central bank.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak brought back former leader David Cameron as foreign minister on Monday in a reshuffle triggered by his firing of interior minister Suella Braverman after her criticism of police threatened his authority.
Budget 2024 will be the Fianna Fáil TD’s first as Minister for Finance, having served as minister for public expenditure minister for the past three budgets.
Caretaker Interior Minister Sarfaraz Bugti and Information and Broadcasting Minister Murtaza Solangi, GB Governor Syed Mehdi Shah and Chief Minister Gulbar Khan, GB chief secretary and Inspector General of Police, and senior officers attended the meeting.
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has also been vociferously defending the party’s decision that led to the exit of the former Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar and the former Deputy Chief Minister Laxman Savadi.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, the newly inducted ministers, former Chief Minister, Basavaraj Bommai were the prominent members who took the oath as MLAs on Monday.
Common combinations with minister
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- prime minister 144×
- minister of 89×
- chief minister 48×
- foreign minister 38×
- minister and 36×
- minister for 32×
- the minister 25×
- finance minister 24×
- and minister 19×
- affairs minister 16×