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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
secretarial
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an agricultural/secretarial/technical etc college
▪ I wanted a job in farm management so I went to agricultural college.
secretarial/clerical/office work
▪ I have a background in secretarial work.
▪ She had done clerical work before she married.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
course
▪ She was taking a secretarial course, and I was able to tell her about the importance of that work in hospital.
▪ Now she would be sent to a convent of the same order in Dublin where she would do a secretarial course.
▪ Men could equally well try this career route but few seem to take secretarial courses.
▪ The secretarial course had been very much a crash one.
job
▪ She recently gave up a secretarial job to start her own jewellery-making business.
▪ Richard had a secretarial job at a nonprofit theater-development foundation.
▪ Marsha Rowe was part-timing at university and working in a dead-end secretarial job.
▪ She quit her secretarial job to become a full-time housewife.
▪ The report identified how she was forced to quit her secretarial job and how she suffered a breakdown.
▪ His cold turned to flu; he stayed home from his hateful secretarial job for a week.
▪ Athenian public slaves never progressed beyond low-grade secretarial jobs.
▪ Very much a hack and secretarial job.
service
▪ The professor will have a room and access to secretarial services in the Institute of Archaeology.
▪ What about an answering service-preferably one with secretarial services if you need some one to type your resume and applications?
▪ They may also require secretarial services if available at the hotel, and a direct dialling telephone. 5.
staff
▪ But it will be very time-consuming for secretarial staff if there are a great many.
▪ In junior and senior high schools, work-inhibited students may be aides to the secretarial staff in the guidance and administrative offices.
▪ He resigned as Foreign Minister in late October, and secretarial staff got as far as clearing out his offices.
▪ It is the Board's intention to identify ways in which it can extend examination options for secretarial staff.
work
▪ They may have risen through the ranks of secretarial work or come from journalism.
▪ Mrs Frost began working for the education authority in 1943, carrying out secretarial work in the area office.
▪ Private agencies generally specialize in clerical and secretarial work and may want to test your speeds, so be prepared for this.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She's held several secretarial jobs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Covent school, then secretarial college.
▪ Elise had blazed a talented trail to an art college four years before Merrill took up secretarial training.
▪ His cold turned to flu; he stayed home from his hateful secretarial job for a week.
▪ Mrs Frost began working for the education authority in 1943, carrying out secretarial work in the area office.
▪ She quit her secretarial job to become a full-time housewife.
▪ Top executives are generally provided with spacious offices and secretarial and support staff.
▪ What about an answering service-preferably one with secretarial services if you need some one to type your resume and applications?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Secretarial

Secretarial \Sec`re*ta"ri*al\, a. Of or pertaining to a secretary; befitting a secretary. [R.]

Secretarial, diplomatic, or other official training.
--Carlyle.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
secretarial

1801, from stem of secretary (Medieval Latin secretarius) + -al (1).

Wiktionary
secretarial

a. 1 Pertaining to a secretary. 2 Connected with a secretary's work.

WordNet
secretarial

adj. of or relating to a secretary or to a secretary's work

Usage examples of "secretarial".

The secretarial staff supervisor looked up from her desk as Claudia came into the large, untidy office overlooking the park.

She hammered on the door, calling out, but there was no reply, and after a while she went back to the sitting-room and dialled the secretarial office number with unsteady fingers.

Just after eleven she rang down to the secretarial office and Judy Smith cheerfully told her that several of the girls had come back from sick leave.

He asked her about her secretarial qualifications, and she was honest in reply.

But even though Sunny was typing, stapling, and stamping as quickly as she could, her mind was not on secretarial supplies but on the appointment she and her siblings had with Coach Genghis that evening, and what they could do about it.

As Dana spoke little French and would need secretarial help, he asked Adams if John Quincy might accompany him.

George Riot slipped into town and on the telephone muttered that she must meet him again at the dreary Hex Hotel, she refused, because she was going to a party to be given by the clever Miss Teddy Klutz, aetat 24, the youngest and liveliest teacher at their Qwick-Shure Secretarial and Executive Commercial College, Positions Guaranteed.

This was further evidence of those very qualities which obviously had been revealed at the Botswana Secretarial College and which had resulted in her astonishingly high marks.

And while it would be perfectly possible for them to register for any of the part-time courses provided by the Botswana Secretarial College, they tended not to do this for reasons of shame.

It was all very well being the most distinguished graduate of her year from the Botswana Secretarial College, but would that count for much here, in the world of music and elegant dancing and mirrors?

Yes, it was her, one of the women from her year at the Botswana Secretarial College, one of those fun-loving glamorous girls who ended up getting barely fifty per cent, and there she was, dancing with a confident and attractive man.

Everybody knew that most of them came to the Botswana Secretarial College simply because they had worked out that the best way of marrying a man with a good job and a lot of money was to become a secretary to such a man.

Not only was he a hard and resourceful worker, but he had a sister who was a graduate of the Botswana Secretarial College!

Vera had to leave her secretarial position when Weil, Ganz and Dieckmann was closed down.

Darsoss glanced behind him to where Kalinin stood next to a glass-encased secretarial section above which there was a large portrait of Stalin.