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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
secretariat
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 committees, therefore, were concerned with similar questions and they were serviced by the same secretariat.
▪ Despite its international image, FoE International's secretariat - currently in London - consists of one person.
▪ I accept that that puts the responsibility on the United Nations secretariat and on the Security Council.
▪ Most of the contribution takes the form of staff time devoted to running the association's secretariat.
▪ The secretariat for Mass Mobilization and Revolutionary Guidance was abolished.
▪ They appeared to ignore him - and organized themselves with a secretariat of their own.
▪ What professional support, and from whom, will the permanent secretariat and permanent advisers have?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Secretariat

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
secretariat

"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.

Wiktionary
secretariat

n. The office or department of a government secretary.

WordNet
secretariat
  1. n. an administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties; especially for international organizations [syn: secretariate]

  2. thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1973

Wikipedia
Secretariat (horse)

Secretariat (March 30, 1970 – October 4, 1989) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who, in 1973, became the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years, winning it by taking the Belmont Stakes in what remains a record time, leaving the field far behind him. During his racing career, he won five Eclipse Awards, including Horse of the Year honors at ages two and three. He was elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1974. When looking at the List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century, Secretariat is second only to Man o' War (racing career 1919–1920), who like the later horse was a large chestnut colt given the nickname "Big Red."

At age two, Secretariat finished fourth in his 1972 debut in a maiden race, but then won seven of his remaining eight starts, including five stakes victories. His only loss during this period was in the Champagne Stakes, where he finished first but was disqualified to second for interference. He received the Eclipse Award for champion two-year-old colt, and also was the 1972 Horse of the Year, a rare honor for a horse so young. At age three, Secretariat not only won the Triple Crown, he set speed records in all three races. His time in the Kentucky Derby still stands as the Churchill Downs track record for miles, and his time in the Belmont Stakes stands as the American record for miles on the dirt. His controversial time in the Preakness Stakes was eventually recognized as a stakes record in 2012. Secretariat's win in the Gotham Stakes tied the track record for 1 mile, he set a world record in the Marlboro Cup at miles and further proved his versatility by winning two major stakes races on turf. He lost three times that year: in the Wood Memorial, Whitney and Woodward Stakes, but the brilliance of his nine wins made him an American icon. He won his second Horse of the Year title, plus Eclipse Awards for champion three-year-old colt and champion turf horse.

At the beginning of his three-year-old year, Secretariat was syndicated for a record-breaking $6.08 million on condition that he be retired from racing by the end of the year. Although he sired several successful racehorses, he ultimately was most influential through his daughters' offspring, becoming the leading broodmare sire in North America in 1992. His daughters produced several notable sires, including Storm Cat, A.P. Indy, Gone West, Dehere and Chief's Crown, and through them Secretariat appears in the pedigree of many modern champions. Long after his premature death due to laminitis, Secretariat continues to be honored as one of the greatest horses in American racing history.

Secretariat

Secretariat may refer to:

  • Secretariat (administrative office)
Secretariat (film)

Secretariat is a 2010 American biographical sports drama film produced and released by Walt Disney Pictures, written by Mike Rich and Sheldon Turner with music by Nick Glennie-Smith and directed by Randall Wallace. The film chronicles the life of Thoroughbred race horse Secretariat, winner of the Triple Crown in 1973. Diane Lane portrays Secretariat's owner, Penny Chenery, and John Malkovich plays his trainer, Lucien Laurin. Filming took place on location in Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky, and around Lafayette, Louisiana and Carencro, Louisiana. The film premiered at the Hollywood premiere in September 30, 2010 and was released on October 8, 2010 by Walt Disney Pictures. The film received mixed reviews from critics and earned $60.3 million on a $35 million budget.

Secretariat (administrative office)

The secretariat of an organization is the department that fulfils its central administrative or general secretary duties. The term is especially associated with governments and intergovernmental organizations such as the United Nations, although some non-governmental organizations (for example, the International Organization for Standardization) also refer to their administrative department as their secretariat. The building or office complex that houses such a department may also be referred to as its secretariat or secretariat building.

In some cases, the secretariat is not a bureaucratic organ, but one which includes a certain organization run by all its members who collectively help to organize the larger group, such as the secretariat of the International of Anarchist Federations, which is an office that rotates irregularly between its member Federations.

The Zhongshu Sheng or simply the Secretariat was one department in the Three Departments and Six Ministries structure in the history of China.

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.