Secretary Treasury Assistant Contact Membership State Noun Bre

• a legal/medical secretary
• please contact my secretary to make an appointment.
• the membership secretary
• secretary of the treasury

secretary

1. a person who works in an office, working for another person, dealing with letters and telephone calls, typing, keeping records, arranging meetings with people, etc.
• see also private secretary
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/private-secretary
• a legal/medical secretary
• Please contact my secretary to make an appointment.
2. an official of a club, society, etc. who deals with writing letters, keeping records, and making business arrangements
• the membership secretary
• = Secretary of State
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/secretary-of-state
3. the head of a government department, chosen by the President
• Secretary of the Treasury
4. (in Britain) an assistant of a government minister, an ambassador, etc.
• see also undersecretary
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/undersecretary

Extra Examples

• UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon
• a former assistant secretary of defense
• assistant secretary of commerce under President Clinton
• deputy secretary of agriculture in the Bush administration
• former Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen
• secretary to the Jockey Club
• the Financial Secretary to the Treasury
• the First Secretary of the Communist Party
• the Secretary for National Defence
• the Secretary of State for Education
• the Treasury Department’s Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy
• the United States Secretary of State
• the former Secretary of State for Energy, Cecil Parkinson
• Anyone interested in joining the society should contact membership secretary Bob Barwood.
• He became permanent secretary at the Department of Transport.
• He had talks with the Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
• Ms Watson is a former parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Education.
• She served as club secretary for 25 years.

Word Origin

• late Middle English (originally in the sense ‘person entrusted with a secret’): from late Latin secretarius ‘confidential officer’, from Latin secretum ‘secret’, neuter of secretus ‘separate, set apart’, from the verb secernere, from se- ‘apart’ + cernere ‘sift’.