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Especially for international organizations
Answer for the clue "Especially for international organizations ", 11 letters:
secretariat
Alternative clues for the word secretariat
- Triple Crown winner: 1973
- [1973]
- 95-Across who made the covers of Time, Newsweek and Sports Illustrated in the same week
- U.N. bet: 1973
- U.N.'s executive body
- An administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties
- 1973 Triple Crown winner
- Diplomatic winner of 1973 Derby?
Word definitions for secretariat in dictionaries
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
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"office of secretary," 1811, from French secrétariat , from Medieval Latin secretariatus , from secretarius (see secretary ). Meaning "division of the Central Committeee of the USSR" is from 1926, from Russian sekretariat .
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.