secretary
Meaning of secretary
noun
- Someone entrusted with a secret; a confidant.
- A person who keeps records, takes notes and handles general clerical work.
- (often capitalized) The head of a department of government.
- A managerial or leading position in certain non-profit organizations, such as political parties, trade unions, international organizations.
Ban Ki-Moon was a secretary general of the United Nations.
- A type of desk, secretary desk; a secretaire.
- A secretary bird, a bird of the species Sagittarius serpentarius.
verb
To serve as a secretary of.
Information about secretary
- The plural form of secretary is: secretaries.
- Languages in which secretary is used:
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Hyphenation of secretary
sec-re-tary
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- secretary is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
secretary synonyms
Meaning repository:
Meaning writing table:
Translation of secretary
- German: Sekretär
- Spanish: secretario, escritorio, depositario
- French: secrétaire, escritoire
- Italian: segretario, scrittoio, secretaire, secrétaire, depositario
- Portuguese: secretário, secretária
Words that rhyme with secretary
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