Secretary

['sekrɪt(ə)rɪ] or ['sɛkrətɛrɪ]

Definition

(noun.) a desk used for writing.

(noun.) an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization.

(noun.) a person who is head of an administrative department of government.

Edited by Jeanne--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A piece of furniture, with conveniences for writing and for the arrangement of papers; an escritoire.

(n.) The secretary bird.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Scribe, clerk.

Checked by Juliana

Definition

n. one employed to write for another: a public officer entrusted with the affairs of a department of government or of a company &c.: a piece of furniture for writing with drawers pigeon-holes &c. (also Secretaire′).—adj. Secretā′rial pertaining to a secretary or his duties.—ns. Secretā′riate the official position of secretary; Sec′retary-bird a raptorial serpent-eating bird resembling the crane found in South Africa and the East—from the tufts of feathers at the back of its head like pens stuck behind the ear; Sec′retaryship.

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