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单词 cabal
释义
cabal
noun[C]
disapproving
uk
/kəˈbæl/us
/kəˈbɑːl/
asmallgroupofpeoplewhoplansecretlyto takeaction,especiallypoliticalaction:
（尤指策划政治行动的）阴谋小集团，阴谋团伙
He wasassassinatedby a cabalofaideswithin his ownregime.他被自己政权内部的幕僚们所组成的阴谋集团暗杀了。
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(Definition ofcabalfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcabal

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Here, too, the issue had been one of 'publicness', with a supposedly voluntary charity having come under the effective control of a smallcabalof surgeons.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Here was the scent of monopoly: the government had no trouble sniffing out a manufacturers'cabalto fix output and wages, and deprive workers of their pleasures.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Parrott demonstrates that the crown was reliant on short-term credit provided by acabalof well-connected financiers, the clients of the ministers they funded, and therefore unassailable.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The system is not the distribution of public monies by a medicalcabalin its own interests, as has sometimes been suggested.
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It was not done in a secretcabal.
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I speak for myself, not as spokesman of a group,cabalor little clique.
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I do not believe that we should provide for a situation where the mayor could be removed by a politicalcabalwithin the assembly.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I prefer to refer to it as the product of acabal.
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I am not speaking for any clique orcabal.
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No one can seriously believe that decisions taken by acabalof about half a dozen machine politicians, behind closed doors, amounts to democracy.
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People believe extraordinary things by way of dogmas and cabals on the "money supply ".
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
When they spoke, this was not some trade unioncabalsaying what we should get.
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That would dispel the view that there is some hiddencabalwith aquid pro quo, a two-way street of gossip and innuendo.
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Instead of thecabalchoosing the people who were elected, the electorate would choose them.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I find it patronising in concept, undemocratic in its probable operation and open to cabals, cliques and cartels.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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