SECRETARY
\sˈɛkɹətɹˌɪ], \sˈɛkɹətɹˌɪ], \s_ˈɛ_k_ɹ_ə_t_ɹ_ˌɪ]\
Definitions of SECRETARY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets.
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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.
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A piece of furniture, with conveniences for writing and for the arrangement of papers; an escritoire.
By Oddity Software
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One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets.
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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.
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A piece of furniture, with conveniences for writing and for the arrangement of papers; an escritoire.
By Noah Webster.
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One who attends to correspondence and business for a company or an individual; an executive who transacts the business of a government department; a writing desk.
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Secretarial.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Secretarial.
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A writing-desk.
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SECRETARYSHIP.
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One who attends to correspondence, records, etc.
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A head of a governmental department.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A writing-desk.
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One employed to write for another: a public officer intrusted with the affairs of a department of government, or of a company, etc.
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SECRETARYSHIP.
By Daniel Lyons
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One who writes for another; head of a department of government; piece of furniture arranged for writing.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. [French , Latin ] A person employed to Write orders, letters, despatches, public or private papers, records, and the like;-an officer whose business is to superintend and manage the affairs of a particular department of government;-a piece of furniture with conveniences for writing; an escritoire.
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