secretary
(sekrətri , US -teri )
Word forms: secretaries
1. countable noun A2
A secretary is a person who is employed to do office work, such as typing letters, answering phone calls, and arranging meetings.
2. countable noun
The secretary of an organization such as a trade union, a political party, or a club is its official manager. [British]
My grandfather was secretary of the Scottish Miners' Union. [+ of]
3. countable noun
The secretary of a company is the person who has the legal duty of keeping the company's records.
4. countable noun & title noun
Secretary is used in the titles of ministers and officials who are in charge of main government departments.
...the British Foreign Secretary.
...the former US Defense Secretary.
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Collocations:
elect a secretary health secretary party secretary
One of the first orders of business was to elect a secretary of the convention.
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He was elected secretary of the new party at the first congress.
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At quinquennial meetings the board also elects the secretary and associate secretaries, as well as officers of the corporation, as provided for in the bylaws.
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He was elected secretary of the local in 1965.
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He was elected secretary of the horticultural society, a position he held for 15 years.
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The health secretary has lit the proverbial blue touch paper.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
For a health secretary who writes handwritten letters each day to patients.
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Once seen as a media smoothie, the health secretary has acquired some scar tissue after the junior doctors dispute.
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The shadow health secretary was booed by union activists for claiming unleaded cost 1.60 a litre instead of the true price of 1.16.
The Sun (2015)
He claims the party secretary tried to 'threaten and intimidate' him after a row.
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The party secretary, not the board of directors, wields ultimate authority.
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After a youth spent tilling the fields, she rose though the ranks of the agricultural collective to become party secretary of a 2,000-strong production brigade.
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They have been banned from travelling on buses by the party secretary.
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Gradually, however, she adjusted and seemed to be just as active politically, taking coded telephone calls from the new party secretary and driving to prearranged rendezvous.
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Translations:
Chinese: 秘书
Japanese: 秘書
- annals
- annex
- annex
- annexation
- annexe
- annihilate
- annihilation
- anniversary
- anniversary celebration
- anniversary concert
- anniversary date
- anniversary edition
- anniversary episode
- anniversary event
- anniversary festival
- anniversary gift
- anniversary party
- anniversary present
- anniversary reunion
- anniversary season
- anniversary show
- anniversary year
- annotate
- annotate text
- annotation