state secretaryn.
/ˌsteɪt ˈsɛkrᵻt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈsteɪt ˈsɛkrəˌtɛri/ 1. Any of various secretaries, ministers, or officials of the State, or of a state; (now esp.) (frequently with for, of) an official in charge of a particular state department. Cf. secretary n.1 3.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government minister > [noun]
minister1589
state secretary1660
man from the ministry1963
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government minister > [noun] > head of government department
commissionera1500
state secretary1660
president1776
supremo1959
1660 Rump righteously handled in New Ballad (single sheet) Here's Nevil, (who to be made in Scot's stead, A State-Secretary) did practice a New art.
1736 J. Morgan tr. J. B. de la Faye Several voyages to Barbary (ed. 2) 119 He was below in this usual Place of giving Audience, having on his Right the four Grand State-Secretaries.
1812 Parl. Reg. (6th Session 4th Parl. United Kingdom Great Brit. & Ireland) I. 141 From this one circumstance the House would see what sort of a head of police they had in their present State Secretary for the Home Department.
1837 Penny Mag. 28 Feb. 77/1 The state secretaries are assisted by under-secretaries, with their clerks.
1898 Lutheran Witness 7 July 22/2 The incorporators..made application to the state secretary for a charter.
1921 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 315 The whole administration is conducted by the provincial government..under the Minister for Slovakia and his thirteen..State Secretaries.
1992 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 25 July b 1/6 Gerald Whitburn, state secretary of Health and Social Services, said he could not positively confirm the approval.
2009 P. Dauvergne Hist. Dict. Environmentalism 74 Brice Lalonde..became state secretary for the environment in François Mitterrand's Socialist government in 1988.
2. Also with capital initials. The chief government official responsible for the foreign affairs of a State; spec. (with reference to the United States) = Secretary of State n. at secretary n.1 3a.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government minister > [noun] > U.S. secretary of state
state secretary1771
premier1855
1771 London Mag. Jan. 55/2 The..secretary of state, demanded..from the duke de Choiseul, minister and state secretary at war and foreign affairs, the resignation of his employments.
1831 G. D. Prentice Biogr. Henry Clay 241 Every instruction,..every diplomatick note, transmitted to the numerous American missions abroad..must be prepared by the state secretary.
1890 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 157 [Pope] Pius..dismissed his state-secretary, Gizzi, an irresolute and timorous politician, and appointed Cardinal Ferretti in his place.
1921 E. W. Ames & A. Eldred Community Civics xxi. 305 The duties of the Secretary of State... The state secretary has charge of the great seal of the state, the national secretary has charge of the Great Seal of the United States.
1966 Life 19 Aug. 30/3 The Dutch government reacted swiftly. State Secretary Max van der Stoel summoned the Chinese charge d'affaires..and demanded Hsu's release.
2005 Scotsman (Nexis) 24 Jan. 26 Madeline Albright..beat Rice to the title of America's first female State Secretary in 1997, serving under Bill Clinton.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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