0 a small group of people who plan secretly to take action, especially political action -- （尤指策划政治行动的）阴谋小集团，阴谋团伙
He was assassinated by a cabal of aides within his own regime. 他被自己政权内部的幕僚们所组成的阴谋集团暗杀了。
I do not believe that we should provide for a situation where the mayor could be removed by a political cabal within the assembly.
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.
No one can seriously believe that decisions taken by a cabal of about half a dozen machine politicians, behind closed doors, amounts to democracy.
I speak for myself, not as spokesman of a group, cabal or little clique.
I am not speaking for any clique or cabal.
It was not done in a secret cabal.
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.
