Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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
Wiktionary
a. 1 Pertaining to a secretary. 2 Connected with a secretary's work.
WordNet
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.