ministers
Pastors or diplomats
Ministers are people who serve in positions of authority.
In government, ministers head departments or agencies: the finance minister, the defense minister.
In religion, ministers are clergy who lead congregations, especially in Protestant churches: The minister performed the wedding ceremony.
To minister is to attend to someone's needs: She ministered to the sick.
Christian congregation leader
- priestOne who performs sacraments
- preacherReligious sermon deliverer
- vicarClergy substitute for bishop
- reverendWorthy of veneration
chaplain · parson · rabbi · imam · bishop · archbishop · deacon · rector
Enclosed storage furniture
- diplomatOfficial foreign representative
- secretaryAdministrative office aide
- ambassadorOfficial foreign representative
- premierFirst in importance
chancellor · parliament · portfolio · prime · foreign · defence · treasury · portfolio
pastor
Christian congregation leader
- priestOne who performs sacraments
- preacherReligious sermon deliverer
- vicarClergy substitute for bishop
reverend · chaplain · parson · rabbi · imam · bishop · archbishop · deacon · rector · curate
cabinet
Enclosed storage furniture
- diplomatOfficial foreign representative
- secretaryAdministrative office aide
- ambassadorOfficial foreign representative
premier · chancellor · parliament · portfolio · prime · foreign · defence · treasury · portfolio · appointee
- Americanspresidents, senators, governors, generals, authors
- governancegovernance, government, democracy, vote, parliament
- authorityleaders, ruler, rulers, monarch, bosses
- notable peoplepoliticians, artists, leaders, writers, scientists
- American ChristianityBaptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Episcopalians
- international lawinternational law, treaty, treaties, conventions, protocols
ministerslaypeople
Those outside a profession
laity · congregation · parishioners · flock · congregants
ministersbackbenchers
Ordinary members of parliament
opposition leaders · constituents · citizens · subjects · shadow ministers
ministersrecipients
Those who receive
beneficiaries · charges · wards · dependents · clients
- prime ministerLeader of a parliamentary state
- foreign ministerHead of diplomacy
- cabinet ministerHead of government department
- defense ministerGovernment's military head
- defence ministerCabinet member for military
- finance ministerState economy overseer