cabal
noun/kəˈbæl/
/kəˈbæl/, /kəˈbɑːl/
(formal, usually disapproving)- a small group of people who are involved in secret plans to get political powerWord Originlate 16th cent. (denoting the Kabbalah): from French cabale, from medieval Latin cabala, cabbala, from Rabbinical Hebrew qabbālāh ‘tradition’, from qibbēl ‘receive, accept’.
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