secretary

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sec·re·ta·ry /ˈsekrətəri $ -teri-/ S2 W1 noun (plural secretaries) [countableC]

1 BOsomeone who works in an office typing letters, keeping records, answering telephone calls, arranging meetings etc 秘书

My secretary will fax you all the details.

我的秘书会把所有的细节发传真给你。

medical/legal secretary 医务/法律秘书

a) PGO (also Secretary of State) the head of an important department in the British government 〔英国政府的〕大臣

the Foreign Secretary

外交大臣

→ Home Secretary

b) PGOan official in charge of a large government department in the US 〔美国政府的〕部长

the Secretary of Defense

国防部长

c) PGOa British official who works in a government department or embassy and is below the rank of minister or ambassador 〔英国政府大臣的〕助理；〔英国大使馆的〕秘书

the First Secretary at the British Embassy

英国大使馆的一等秘书

→ Secretary of State , undersecretary

3 SSOa member of a club or organization who takes notes in meetings, writes official letters etc 〔俱乐部或团体的〕书记员，干事

the secretary of the tennis club

网球俱乐部的干事

Examples from the Corpus

secretary• A secretary pops in to say that a lawyer insists on talking with Meagher immediately by phone.• But good news came when Truman appointed Dean Acheson secretary of state.• A company which has a sole director is required by s. 283 to have another person as its company secretary.• He must have asked his secretary for the file on Andy, and she got the wrong one.• He wants to be Northern Ireland secretary.• the secretary of the chess club• The secretary lost Awlad Amira support and became a night watchman in a school.• The secretary was enormously dissatisfied with how some of our programs were being managed, and made no bones about it.

medical/legal secretary• On the jury questionnaire the woman listed her daughter as a legal secretary but neglected to say she was employed by Garcetti.• I am a single 33-year-old woman employed as a legal secretary.• Kelly Jones has joined the staff as a medical secretary.• She also mentioned that her daughter is a legal secretary.• A LEGAL secretary who claimed she had been unfairly dismissed from work during sick leave is considering appealing after losing her case.• Currently this module is being offered to students in Dundee undertaking programmes in business studies and for medical secretaries.• Carroll, a 53-year-old legal secretary who was stabbed and slashed 61 times at her home in northeast Escondido.

From Longman Business Dictionary

secretarysec·re·ta·ry /ˈsekrətəri-teri/ noun (plural secretaries) [countableC]JOB

1someone who works in an office helping to organize the work, answering the telephone, arranging meetings etc

His personal secretary (=one working for only him) handles all his appointments.

2someone who works for a large organization and who is responsible for running its daily affairs

the general secretary of the European Confederation of trade unions

→ company secretary → executive secretary → press secretary

3a government official in charge of a particular department or area of work

theTrade Secretary

He has been appointed Secretary of State for Health.

Origin secretary

(1300-1400) Medieval Latin secretarius “someone who does private work for another, secretary”, from Latin secretus; → SECRET1

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