Ministry \Min"is*try\, n.; pl. Ministries . [L. ministerium. See
Minister, n., and cf. Mystery a trade.]
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1. The act of ministering; ministration; service. "With
tender ministry." --Thomson.
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2. Hence: Agency; instrumentality.
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The ordinary ministry of second causes. --Atterbury.
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The wicked ministry of arms. --Dryden.
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3. The office, duties, or functions of a minister, servant,
or agent; ecclesiastical, executive, or ambassadorial
function or profession.
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4. The body of ministers of state; also, the clergy, as a
body.
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5. Administration; rule; term in power; as, the ministry of
Pitt.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ministry
n 1: religious ministers collectively (especially Presbyterian)
2: building where the business of a government ministry is
transacted
3: a government department under the direction of a minister
WordNet (r) 2.0
123 Moby Thesaurus words for "ministry":
Sacred College, administration, advisory council, agency, agent,
aid, assistance, attendance, auspices, bailiwick, benefit, bureau,
bureaucracy, cabinet, camarilla, care, channel, charge, clergy,
clerical order, clericals, comfort, commissariat, constablery,
constablewick, constabulary, council, council of state, cure,
custodianship, custody, department, directorate, divan, ease,
employ, employment, good offices, governance, government,
guardianship, guidance, hands, help, hierarchy, higher echelons,
higher-ups, holy orders, instrument, instrumentality,
instrumentation, jurisdiction, keeping, kitchen cabinet,
management, mean, medium, ministration, municipality, office,
offices, officialdom, organ, oversight, pastorage, pastorate,
pastorship, patronage, peonage, prelacy, presbytery, priestery,
priesthood, privy council, protection, protectorship, rabbinate,
relief, religion, remedy, rescue, ruling class, ruling classes,
sacred calling, safe hands, secretariat, serfdom, service,
servitium, servitorship, servitude, shadow cabinet, sheriffalty,
sheriffwick, shrievalty, slavery, stewardship, succor, support,
tendance, the Establishment, the administration, the authorities,
the church, the cloth, the ingroup, the interests,
the people upstairs, the power elite, the power structure,
the pulpit, the top, them, therapy, they, top brass, tutelage,
vehicle, ward, wardenship, wardship, watch and ward, wing
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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