Definitions for secretary

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secretary sec·re·tar·y

Spelling: [sek-ri-ter-ee]

IPA: /ˈsɛk rɪˌtɛr i/

Secretary is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 410 anagrams from letters in secretary (aceerrsty).

Definitions for secretary

noun

1. a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.:
2. a person employed to handle correspondence and do routine work in a business office, usually involving taking dictation, typing, filing, and the like.
3. private secretary.
4. (often initial capital letter) an officer of state charged with the superintendence and management of a particular department of government, as a member of the president's cabinet in the U.S.:
5. Also called diplomatic secretary. a diplomatic official of an embassy or legation who ranks below a counselor and is usually assigned as first secretary, second secretary, or third secretary.
6. a piece of furniture for use as a writing desk.
7. Also called secretary bookcase. a desk with bookshelves on top of it.

Origin of secretary

1350-1400; Middle English secretarie one trusted with private or secret matters; confidant Medieval Latin sēcrētārius Latin sēcrēt(um) secret (noun) + -ārius

Examples for secretary

The secretary's voice was mechanical, without any trace of feeling.

In order to withhold the photographs, the secretary of defense must certify that photographs could cause harm to Americans.

He paused, evidently expectant of laudatory corroboration from the secretary.

And compare, as noted up top, to secretary Clinton, who spent years quietly pushing a modernized Cuba policy.

But the president and secretary need to be very careful here.

Even Defense secretary Gates, at least for a time, was open to the notion.

But the effort on the secretary's part was wholly without success.

"Been and gone," was the secretary's answer, with the terseness characteristic of her.

When Smithson had left the office, Gilder turned to his secretary.

ALEC echoed the ideology of Charles Wilson, the first Defense secretary in the Eisenhower administration.