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[min-uh-stree]

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noun, plural -tries.

the service, functions, or profession of a minister of religion.

the body or class of ministers of religion; clergy.

the service, function, or office of a minister of state.

the body of ministers of state.

(usually initial capital letter) any of the administrative governmental departments of certain countries usually under the direction of a minister of state.

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(usually initial capital letter) the building that houses such an administrative department.

the term of office of a minister of state.

an act or instance of ministering; ministration; service.

something that serves as an agency, instrument, or means.

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Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English < Latin ministerium, equivalent to minister minister + -ium -ium

Related forms

pre·min·is·try, noun, plural -tries.

pseu·do·min·is·try, noun, plural -tries.

un·der·min·is·try, noun, plural -tries.

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Example Sentences

The ministry has often been criticized for dragging its feet on reforms.

The ministry is taking part in the two-month effort.

Mexico's environmental ministry is about to make an official ruling on that.

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The ministry has often been criticized for dragging its feet on reforms.

The ministry is taking part in the two-month effort.

Mexico's environmental ministry is about to make an official ruling on that.

Hart says the ministry is being pedantic in its pursuit of his website.

They must commit to raising standards, and their subsequent performance is monitored by the ministry.

Later he ran the posts and telecommunications ministry, a forerunner of today's information-industry ministry.

These days many students come here to prepare for careers other than ministry.

Foreign affairs used to be the business of the pro-detente foreign ministry.

Last summer the ministry floated the idea that the project should be scrapped.

He had finished a stint as a top policeman, and was starting a new security job at the defence ministry.

The education ministry supports those efforts and believes that the financial burden on adult learners should be lowered.

Paul's during its nine-month ministry to ground zero workers.

Pakistan's sovereignty and should be stopped immediately," the ministry added, in a statement.

The justice ministry now proposes putting him in a military jail.

Malaysian law dictates that all private-education courses must be cleared by the ministry in order to ensure their quality.

The director of campus ministry called the students home to offer sympathies for the deceased mother who had been battling.

Finland's education ministry has three full-time staff handling school visits by foreign politicians, officials and journalists.

Private prisons are also a good deal, says the justice ministry.

The ministry of internal affairs is conducting an embezzlement investigation.

The country is still haunted by insurgents but the health ministry estimates that six times as many.

Second-career ministry students are virtually guaranteed to make less in their new careers after completing their education.

Rogue agents in the intelligence ministry are said to have confessed to those murders.

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World English Dictionary

ministry (ˈmɪnɪstrɪ)

—n , pl -tries
1.	a. the profession or duties of a minister of religion
	b. the performance of these duties
2.	ministers of religion or government ministers considered collectively
3.	the tenure of a minister
4.	a. a government department headed by a minister
	b. the buildings of such a department

[C14: from Latin ministerium service, from minister servant; see minister]

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Word Origin & History

ministry

late 14c., "function of a priest," from L. ministerium "office, service," from minister (see minister). Began to be used 1916 as name of certain departments in British government.

Encyclopedia Britannica

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ministry

in Christianity, the office held by persons who are set apart by ecclesiastical authority to be ministers in the church or whose call to special vocational service in a church is afforded some measure of general recognition. The type of ministry varies in the different churches. That which developed in the early church and is retained by the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Old Catholic, Anglican, and some Protestant churches is episcopal (see episcopacy) and is based on the three orders, or offices, of bishop, priest, and deacon.

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