| minister (ˈmɪnɪstə) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | (esp in Presbyterian and some Nonconformist Churches) a member of the clergy |
| 2. | a person appointed to head a government department |
| 3. | any diplomatic agent accredited to a foreign government or head of state |
| 4. | See envoy short for minister plenipotentiary or envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary |
| 5. | Also called (in full): minister resident a diplomat ranking after an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary |
| 6. | a person who attends to the needs of others, esp in religious matters |
| 7. | a person who acts as the agent or servant of a person or thing |
| —vb (often foll by to) | |
| 8. | to attend to the needs (of); take care (of) |
| 9. | archaic (tr) to provide; supply |
| [C13: via Old French from Latin: servant; related to minus less] | |
| 'ministership | |
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |