minister of finance
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4.2
- noun
- Formal
:
ministro de Hacienda
- I have to deal with the ministers, especially Minister of Finance for Fiscal Resources for annual budgets.
- the minister of finance
- accuse the minister of finance
- minister of finance and foreign affairs
I have to deal with the ministers, especially Minister of Finance for Fiscal Resources for annual budgets.
- I have to deal with the ministers, especially Minister of Finance for Fiscal Resources for annual budgets.
Examples
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My minister of finance, Mr. Timothy Souza.
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I never thought that the Minister of Finance can be either a happy man or a successful man, and he did both.
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Over a year of owing thousands of dollars, somehow, the minister of finance had no idea.
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They are going to the house of the Minister of Finance.
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The Minister of Finance announced new tax policies to stimulate the economy.
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As Minister of Finance, she oversees the allocation of funds for public services.
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During the meeting, the Minister of Finance detailed the government's spending plan.
Synonyms
862
3.0
A senior government official who leads a department
52
5.0
A person who manages money and pays bills for a group or company
46
4.1
A senior government official who manages a country's money and economy
14
7.7
A cabinet minister who manages the government's money and taxes
14
3.7
A government person who manages a country's money, taxes, and spending
12
5.0
A senior government official who is part of the cabinet and leads a government department
7
4.1
The head of the United States department that manages national money and financial policy
5
3.7
A person in the government who leads a department and makes rules about it
2
7.8
A senior government official who manages the country's money and taxes
How Senior
- Formal
72
4.2
15
3.4
- US
8
4.3
212
2.7
24
3.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is compositionally built from 'minister' (a high-ranking government official) + 'finance' (management of money) with the linking preposition 'of' indicating the domain of responsibility; this structure directly yields 'a government official responsible for finances'. This is a common, cross-linguistically parallel noun-of-noun role construction and therefore readily inferable by a B1 learner who knows the constituents.
Etymology
The phrase minister of finance comes from two old ideas: a minister was a helper who served a ruler, and finance meant the country's money and payments. Picture a trusted helper holding the ruler's bags of coins and keeping track of them, and you can see why a minister of finance today is the government official 'in charge of a country's money'.