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1. (n.) secretary
a person in charge of records, correspondence, and related affairs, as for a company.
2. secretary
a person employed to do routine work in a business office, as typing, filing, and answering phones.
3. secretary
a person employed to attend to the individual or confidential correspondence, scheduling, etc. of an executive, celebrity, or the like .
4. secretary
(often cap. ) 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.:
Secretary of the Treasury.
5. secretary
a diplomatic official who assists an ambassador or minister .
6. secretary
a piece of furniture for use as a writing desk, esp . one with drawers below and a cabinet or bookshelves above an often enclosed writing surface .
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME secretarie one trusted with private or secret matters, confidant < ML sēcrētārius = L sēcrēt(um) secret (n.) +-ārius -ary )
Definition of 'Secretary'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun) secretary
a person who is head of an administrative department of government
2. (noun) secretary, secretarial assistant
an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization
3. (noun) repository, secretary
a person to whom a secret is entrusted
4. (noun) secretary, writing table, escritoire, secretaire
a desk used for writing
1. (noun) secretary
sb who works for another person preparing letters, organizing meetings, etc.
a legal secretary
2. secretary
a member of an organization who is in charge of writing notes in meetings, sending letters, etc.
the PTA secretary
3. secretary
a government official who is the head of a department
the Secretary of State
Definition of 'Secretary'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun) Secretary
one who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets
2. (noun) Secretary
a person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public or private papers, records, and the like; an official scribe, amanuensis, or writer; one who attends to correspondence, and transacts other business, for an association, a public body, or an individual
3. (noun) Secretary
an officer of state whose business is to superintend and manage the affairs of a particular department of government, and who is usually a member of the cabinet or advisory council of the chief executive; as, the secretary of state, who conducts the correspondence and attends to the relations of a government with foreign courts; the secretary of the treasury, who manages the department of finance; the secretary of war, etc
4. (noun) Secretary
a piece of furniture, with conveniences for writing and for the arrangement of papers; an escritoire
5. (noun) Secretary
the secretary bird
Sense: a person employed to write letters, keep records and make business arrangements etc for another person
He dictated a letter to his secretary.
Afrikaans: sekretaresse
Arabic: سِكْرِتير أو سِكْرِتيرَه،
Bulgarian: секретар/ка
Brazilian: secretária
Czech: sekretář, -ka
German: der/die Sekretär(in)
Danish: sekretær
Greek: γραμματέας (το επάγγελμα)
Spanish: secretario
Estonian: sekretär
Farsi: منشي
Finnish: sihteeri
French: secrétaire
Hebrew: מַזכִּיר, מַזכִּירָה
Hindi: मुंशी
Croatian: tajnik
Hungarian: titkár
Indonesian: sekretaris
Icelandic: ritari
Italian: segretario
Japanese: 秘書
Korean: 비서
Lithuanian: sekretorius
Latvian: sekretārs; sekretāre
Malay: setiausaha
Dutch: secretaresse
Norwegian: sekretær; daglig leder
Polish: sekretarka, sekretarz
Persian: منشي
Pashto: سكرټر، منشى، ميرزا، وزير،
Portuguese: secretária
Romanian: secretar
Russian: секретарь
Slovak: sekretár, -ka
Slovenian: tajnik, tajnica
Serbian: sekretarica
Swedish: sekreterare
Thai: เลขานุการ
Turkish: sekreter
Taiwanese: 秘書
Ukrainian: секретар
Urdu: مساعد، سیکریٹری
Vietnamese: thư kí
Chinese: 秘书
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