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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
undersecretary
noun
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▪ Councils have been discussing the proposal since a meeting last year with transport undersecretary Patrick McLoughlin.
▪ He went to the Pentagon in 1969 as undersecretary and then secretary of the Navy in the Nixon and Ford administrations.
▪ Mr Fred Ikle, who was President Reagan's undersecretary of defence for policy, has always had his doubts.
▪ Oshima is the U.N. undersecretary for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief, who has been dispatched to look around.
▪ These organizational units typically represent undersecretary commands.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Undersecretary

Undersecretary \Un`der*sec"re*ta*ry\, n. A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.

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undersecretary

n. An administrator immediately subordinate to a head of a government department or to a member of a cabinet

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undersecretary

n. a secretary immediately subordinate to the head of a department of government

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Undersecretary

An undersecretary is an executive government official in many countries, frequently a career public servant, who typically acts as a senior administrator or second-in-command to a politically appointed Cabinet Minister or other government official. The title is used in many different political systems.

Usage examples of "undersecretary".

Hans Globke, so obtaining a hearing for the mealworm party in the Bundestag and for certain undersecretaries in the most important ministries, a great deal, everything perhaps, would have gone wrong.

I excused myself as I moved around a party which included the Undersecretary of State in a lampblack suit.

Wolfowitz and fellow neoconservative Doug Feith, who had served as undersecretary for policy, had both left the Pentagon.

The archangel-class courier translates in-system with two aboard: Captain Marget Wu, aide to Fleet Admiral Marusyn, and the Jesuit Father Brown, special adviser to Monsignor Lucas Oddi, Undersecretary of Vatican State and confidant of Secretary of State Simon Augustino Cardinal Lourdusamy.

This would likely be her last chance to make a calm assessment of the situation before a myriad of people and agencies got involved: secretaries, undersecretaries, directors, deputy directors, generals, admirals, and of course the president himself and the grab bag of political advisors who came with him.

At his leader's look, the son of the Undersecretary of State dropped his eyes groundwards in immediate humility.