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# minister

«minister» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person in charge of a government department, such as…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a minister, ministers); verb (minister to — formal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A minister is a person in charge of a government department, such as the minister for education. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/minister/#m1)

2) A minister is a leader in some Christian churches who leads services. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/minister/#m2)

3) To minister to someone is to look after them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/minister/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In civics, the Prime Minister leads the government in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland; ministers are in charge of areas like health or education. In the USA, similar people are called secretaries. In churches, the minister leads worship. Phrases: "Prime Minister", "government minister", "minister for…".

### examples

- The Prime Minister spoke on television. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/minister/#x1)
- The education minister visited our school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/minister/#x2)
- The minister read from the Bible on Sunday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/minister/#x3)
- Each minister is in charge of one department. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/minister/#x4)
- Nurses ministered to the sick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/minister/#x5)
- Who is the health minister? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/minister/#x6)
- “But he is my prime minister’s son!” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/minister/#x7)

### note

Countable. Related: ministry (a department). Capital letters in titles: "the Prime Minister". Not every country uses the word; the USA has a President and Secretaries.

### In the corpora

- [In the UK you do not vote for the prime minister directly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/17-uk-elections-and-the-prime-minister-as-reported/0/)
- [The sermon is a talk by the minister explaining a Bible passage and how to live it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/23-sunday-service-hymns-and-the-lords-prayer/8/)
- [And Joseph found favour in his sight, and he ministered unto him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1251/)
- [And Moses rose up, and Joshua his minister; and Moses went up into the mount of God.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.695/)
- [And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto Me in the priest's office.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.918/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «minister» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/minister/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.