0 a small group of people who plan secretly to take action, especially political action:
He was assassinated by a cabal of aides within his own regime.
Here, too, the issue had been one of 'publicness', with a supposedly voluntary charity having come under the effective control of a small cabal of surgeons.
Here was the scent of monopoly: the government had no trouble sniffing out a manufacturers' cabal to fix output and wages, and deprive workers of their pleasures.
Parrott demonstrates that the crown was reliant on short-term credit provided by a cabal of well-connected financiers, the clients of the ministers they funded, and therefore unassailable.
The system is not the distribution of public monies by a medical cabal in its own interests, as has sometimes been suggested.
It was not done in a secret cabal.
I speak for myself, not as spokesman of a group, cabal or little clique.
I do not believe that we should provide for a situation where the mayor could be removed by a political cabal within the assembly.
I prefer to refer to it as the product of a cabal.