Usually means: Secret group plotting, scheming together.
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General (35 matching dictionaries)
  1. cabal: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cabal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cabal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cabal, the Cabal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cabal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cabal, cabal: Wordnik
  7. cabal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cabal, cabal: Wiktionary
  9. cabal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cabal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cabal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cabal, cabal: Dictionary.com
  13. cabal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Cabal (Dibdin novel), Cabal (arcade game), Cabal (comics), Cabal (disambiguation), Cabal (novella), Cabal (set theory), Cabal (software), Cabal (surname), Cabal (video game), Cabal, The Cabal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cabal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cabal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cabal: Rhymezone
  18. Cabal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cabal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Cabal: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  21. cabal: Free Dictionary
  22. cabal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Cabal, cabal: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. Cabal: The Word Detective
  25. cabal: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. Cabal: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Cabal, cabal: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Cabal, cabal: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. CABAL: Acronym Finder
  3. cabal: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CABAL: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (derogatory) A putative, secret organization of individuals gathered for a political purpose.
▸ noun:  A secret plot.
▸ noun:  An identifiable group within the tradition of Discordianism.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To engage in the activities of a cabal.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:
camarilla, faction, junta, junto, conspiracy, complot, conspire, clique, cabalism, click, more...

Opposite:
openness, transparency, honesty, candor

Types:
government, business, religious, media, educational, scientific, sporting, criminal, more...

Phrases:
Conway Cabal, Backbone cabal, the cabal, there is no cabal, Cabal Online, more...

Adjectives:
secret, jesuit, small, whole, powerful, political, little, military, called, literary, private


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Similar:
camarilla, faction, junta, junto, conspiracy, complot, conspire, clique, cabalism, click, more...

Opposite:
openness, transparency, honesty, candor

Types:
government, business, religious, media, educational, scientific, sporting, criminal, more...

Phrases:
Conway Cabal, Backbone cabal, the cabal, there is no cabal, Cabal Online, Santa Rosa de Cabal, coup cabal, dissenting cabal, more...

Adjectives:
secret, jesuit, small, whole, powerful, political, little, military, called, literary, private



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