Crossword clues for secretaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Secretary \Sec"re*ta*ry\, n.; pl. Secretaries. [F. secr['e]taire (cf. Pr. secretari, Sp. & Pg. secretario, It. secretario, segretario) LL. secretarius, originally, a confidant, one intrusted with secrets, from L. secretum a secret. See Secret, a. & n.]
One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. [R.]
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A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public or private papers, records, and the like; an official scribe, amanuensis, or writer; one who attends to correspondence, and transacts other business, for an association, a public body, or an individual.
That which is most of all profitable is acquaintance with the secretaries, and employed men of ambassadors.
--Bacon. An officer of state whose business is to superintend and manage the affairs of a particular department of government, and who is usually a member of the cabinet or advisory council of the chief executive; as, the secretary of state, who conducts the correspondence and attends to the relations of a government with foreign courts; the secretary of the treasury, who manages the department of finance; the secretary of war, etc.
A piece of furniture, with conveniences for writing and for the arrangement of papers; an escritoire.
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(Zo["o]l.) The secretary bird.
Secretary bird. [So called in allusion to the tufts of feathers at the back of its head, which were fancifully thought to resemble pens stuck behind the ear.] (Zo["o]l.) A large long-legged raptorial bird ( Gypogeranus serpentarius), native of South Africa, but now naturalized in the West Indies and some other tropical countries. It has a powerful hooked beak, a crest of long feathers, and a long tail. It feeds upon reptiles of various kinds, and is much prized on account of its habit of killing and devouring snakes of all kinds. Called also serpent eater.
Syn: See the Note under Clerk, n., 4.
Wiktionary
Usage examples of "secretaries".
The C-SPAN cameras in the chamber had been remotely controlled, and control-room technicians froze various frames to show the front row of senior government officials, and, again, the roll of the dead was cataloged: All but two of the Cabinet secretaries, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, senior agency directors, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Director Bill Shaw of the FBI, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Administrator of NASA, all nine Justices of the Supreme Court.
We've lost all the other Cabinet secretaries: Director Shaw, all nine Supreme Court justices, the Joint Chiefs.
Normally at this time of day, Ryan knew all too well from his own experience, the nation's capital was gridlocked with the automobiles of federal employees, lobbyists, members of Congress and their staffers, fifty thousand lawyers and their secretaries, and all the private-industry service workers who supported them all.
All of the federal executive agencies will be operating today under the leadership of the sitting deputy secretaries, and--"
The secretaries were here, and it wasn't fair to make them trek across the building, up and down stairs.
Gallic was a writer, not a typist, and the presidential secretaries could type at a speed that made Ryan gasp to watch.
I've got most of the Cabinet posts filled--for HHS and Education, we still have the sitting Deputy Secretaries doing a fine job.
Now one of his secretaries, Ellen Sumter, knew about some rather restricted things--but she was a.
The Cabinet secretaries arrived almost together, and their arrival couldn't be a secret.
The inspector waved his way past the secretaries and walked into the Director's office without a knock.
All of the federal executive agencies will be operating today under the leadership of the sitting deputy secretaries, and—"
Callie was a writer, not a typist, and the presidential secretaries could type at a speed that made Ryan gasp to watch.
I've got most of the Cabinet posts filled—for HHS and Education, we still have the sitting Deputy Secretaries doing a fine job.
He explained the layout of the building and introduced Mitch to various secretaries and paralegals as they walked.
The center of each floor was filled with secretaries, their desks, file cabinets, copiers and the other necessary machines.