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secretary

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1. secretary - Noun

2. secretary - Verb

3. Secretary - Proper noun

Meaning

One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets.

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.

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.

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

The secretary bird.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department. Joseph McCarthy

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine. Barry Goldwater

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president. Dean Acheson

The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood. Dennis Miller

What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality. William Devane

When a Secretary of State illegally stores her emails on a private server, deletes 33,000 of them so the authorities can't see her crime, puts our country at risk, lies about it in every different form and faces no consequence – I know that corruption has reached a level like never before. Donald Trump

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