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An administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties
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secretariat
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Secretariat \Sec`re*ta"ri*at\, Secretariate \Sec`re*ta"ri*ate\, n. [F. secr['e]tariat.] The office of a secretary; the place where a secretary transacts business, keeps records, etc.
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Secretariat may refer to: Secretariat (administrative office)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties; especially for international organizations [syn: secretariate ] thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1973
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE permanent ▪ What professional support, and from whom, will the permanent secretariat and permanent advisers have? ▪ It was agreed to establish a small permanent secretariat in Prague. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Both ...
Usage examples of secretariat.
War or Secretariat, or jumpers such as Idle Dice, Abdullah, Galoubet, or Big Ben.
He had been found, face-down in the slush, by a senior member of the Central Committee Secretariat, who was cohabiting in his dacha with a woman not his wife.
He and Anatoly Krivoi had worked together in the Party Organizations Section of the General Secretariat of the Central Committee.
In some manner, it would seem, with vague attribution to the auspices of the Department of State, and in public-minded and full support of a recommendation from the Office of the Secretariat of the ITU, it would appear .
What man who was not there can judge the Judenrdte, the Central Secretariats, and the Transport Sections?
Then I sat on the deck with my feet up on an anchor, studying my notes from the Palatine secretariat which administered funds for the Great King's palace.
And there at the end of the corridor, with the bright front window at his back, between the secretariat and the principal's office, stood the Great Mahlke, mouseless -- for from his neck hung that very special article, the abracadabra, the magnet, the exact opposite of an onion, the galvanized four-leaf clover, good old Schinkel's brain child, the trinket, the all-day sucker, the thingamajig, the Iwillnotutterit.
The silhouette of the man in the middle was immediately recognizable-the obese Secretariat Vaticana, overlord of all legal matters within Vatican City.