ministries
- 1Plural of ministry.
The budget cuts affected three ministries responsible for health and education.
Several church ministries collaborated on the relief effort.
Note
The plural follows the familiar spelling rule for a consonant plus y: ministry becomes ministries. What it counts depends on the meaning in play. It can mean separate government departments, several governing bodies of ministers, each under its own head of government, or distinct strands of spiritual or charitable work run by a church. The form is the same in every case, so only context tells the reader which is meant.
ministries is a form of ministry
ministry, noun: A government department responsible for a particular area of public affairs, usually headed by a minister or official of equivalent rank. Full entry
- Forms
- ministryministries plural
- Spelling
- ministry → ministries: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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