Collective Executive

In constitutional usage in Commonwealth realms and in some other systems, a ministry (Collective Execute) is a collective body of government ministers headed by a prime minister or premier, and also referred to as the head of government. The term is primarily used to describe the successive governments of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, which share a common parliamentary political heritage.

espite the use of the term "ministry" in this sense being rare in Portugal nowadays, until the first half of the 20th century, the term was frequently used in this country to designate the collective body of government ministers.