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A secretary , or personal assistant is a person whose work consists of supporting management, including executives, using a variety of project management, communication, or organizational skills. These functions may be entirely carried out to assist one ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a club secretary ▪ For further information about membership, contact the club secretary. company secretary Foreign Secretary Home Secretary press secretary private secretary ▪ a parliamentary private secretary secretary ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 (context obsolete English) Someone entrusted with a secret; a confidant. 2 (senseid en person keeping records and handling clerical work)A person who keeps records, takes notes and handles general clerical work. 3 (senseid en head of a department of ...
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n. a person who is head of an administrative department of government an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization [syn: secretarial assistant ] a person to whom a secret is entrusted [syn: repository ] a desk ...
Usage examples of secretary.
In 1717, when Addison became principal secretary of state in England, he procured for Budgell the place of accountant and comptroller-general of the revenue in Ireland.
Following his advice, I wrote to the secretary of the Tribunal to the effect that I was happy to have given the Government a proof of my zeal, and an earnest of my desire to be useful to my country and to be worthy of being recalled.
Secretary of Commerce, formed the Business Advisory Council on June 26, 1933.
Morris also served as the executive secretary of the NSA Scientific Advisory Board.
On December 13, 1919, the presidents and secretaries of the 113 national and international unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor met at Washington, D.
I have been moved by considerations by me deemed sufficient to withhold my authority for affixing the said seal: Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby authorize the Secretary of State to cancel my signature to the instrument aforesaid.
TO THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES: In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 19th instant requesting information concerning the quasi armistice alluded to in my message of the 4th instant, I transmit a report from the Secretary of the Navy.
Long cleared his throat and met the same eyes almost angrily before he spoke to the secretary.
Beaufort, Port Royal, and New Orleans shall so far cease and determine, from and after the first day of June next, that commercial intercourse with those ports, except as to persons, things, and information contraband of war, may from that time be carried on, subject to the laws of the United States, and to the limitations and in pursuance of the regulations which are prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury in his order of this date, which is appended to this proclamation.
Alexandria shall so far cease and determine, from and after this date, that commercial intercourse with said port, except as to persons, things, and information contraband of war, may from this date be carried on, subject to the laws of the United States, and to the limitations and in pursuance of the regulations which are prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury in his order which is appended to my proclamation of the 12th of May, 1862.
See minute of October 11 to Secretary of State for War, Appendix C, Book One.
We have already recommended that the total level of funding for intelligence be made public, and that the national intelligence program be appropriated to the National Intelligence Director, not to the secretary of defense.
The original act creating the Court of Claims provided for an analogous procedure with appeals to the Supreme Court after which judgments in favor of claimants were to be referred to the Secretary of the Treasury for payments out of the general appropriation for the payment of private claims.
Senate of an extension of the Capitol, by the construction of a new Senate-Chamber and Hall of Representatives, may have caused the appropriation for that object to be put under my charge as Secretary of War.
If there had been significant developments on what happened to the missing 727 while he was on his way to Angola, the secretary would either have indicated that in the e-mail, or, at the least, ordered him to call home.