secretary
IPA: sˈɛkrʌtɛri
noun
- (obsolete) Someone entrusted with a secret; a confidant.
- (obsolete) Someone employed as a scribe for personal correspondence.
- A person who keeps records, takes notes and handles general clerical work.
- (often capitalized) The head of a department of government.
- A managerial or leading position in certain non-profit organizations, such as political parties, trade unions, international organizations.
- (US) A type of desk, secretary desk; a secretaire.
- A secretary bird, a bird of the species Sagittarius serpentarius.
- A town in Maryland.
verb
- (transitive) To serve as a secretary of.
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Examples of "secretary" in Sentences
- She was hired as a secretary.
- Contact the secretary for the password.
- Pallas became the secretary of the treasury.
- An aide is a secretary or factotum in the army.
- He was the Secretary of State of the Confederacy.
- The deputy secretary is the chief policy advisor to the Secretary.
- It was deposited in the office of the secretary of the viceroyalty.
- He was Assistant Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1886.
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