cabinet reshuffle
Government role swap
A cabinet reshuffle is a reorganization of government ministers, where a head of state reassigns, dismisses, or appoints officials to different positions.
The term is primarily British: The Prime Minister announced a cabinet reshuffle following the scandal.
Americans more often say cabinet shake-up.
Reshuffles may signal policy shifts, reward loyalty, or respond to political crises.
- prime ministerLeader of a parliamentary state
- Number 10UK premier's official home
- ministryClergy's work or state department
- secretaryAdministrative office aide
- portfolioCollected works or assets
appointment · musical chairs · dismissal · reorganization · demote · Whitehall · public opinion · shake-up · decision-making · authority · media coverage · executive branch · oust · junior minister · sack · parliamentary democracy · backbench · crisis management
- CabinetSecretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Treasury, finance minister, ministers
- rearrangementsrearrangement, reorder, permutation, transpose, shuffle
- shakeupsshakeup, shake-up, reorganization, restructuring, overhaul
- French PresidencyFrench president, presidential election, presidential term, head of state, executive power
- power shiftsregime change, coup d'etat, overthrow, abdication, inauguration
- coalitionscoalition government, coalition partner, coalition agreement, coalition building, coalition talks
cabinet reshufflegeneral election
Nationwide voting for office
election · regime change · revolution · new administration · snap election
cabinet reshufflemass resignation
Many employees quitting simultaneously