If you handle the correspondence and clerical work for your boss or your company, you are a secretary. One of your duties as a secretary is to open the mail.
One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets.
Noun
a desk used for writing
Noun
a person to whom a secret is entrusted
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
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.
Secretary
That which is most of all profitable is acquaintance with the secretaries, and employed men of ambassadors.3.
One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets.
Usage Examples
I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.
Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.
Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.
The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.
One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.
No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis.
Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.
Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.
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Other Usage ExamplesI'm not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o'clock in the morning and I'm looking for my secretary because I want to know what's going on.
Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.
Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.
Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.
I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
I have great respect for President Bush, Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge.
I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.
No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister you have to give yourself 100 percent.
Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.