Synonym: escritoire, repository, secretaire, secretarial assistant, writing table. Similar words: in secret, decrepit, decrease, military, secondary, voluntary, get around, retain. Meaning: ['sekrətərɪ /-trə] 
n. 1. a person who is head of an administrative department of government 2. an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization 3. a person to whom a secret is entrusted 4. a desk used for writing.
n. 1. a person who is head of an administrative department of government 2. an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization 3. a person to whom a secret is entrusted 4. a desk used for writing. 
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211. The employment secretary found himself in the firing line over recent job cuts.
212. There must have been some misunderstanding between the minister and his secretary.
213. The foreign secretary is reported as saying that force will have to be used if diplomacy fails.
214. The Treasury Secretary has stuck to his mantra that 'a strong dollar is in America's interest'.
215. The Opposition reckons the Health Secretary has ducked all the difficult decisions.
216. In August he was appointed to the situation of secretary.
217. Among the speakers at the gathering was Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady.
218. Ever since our secretary walked out, the office has been in a state of total/utter chaos.
219. The proposals were given in outline by the Secretary of State.
220. Their conversations were taken down in shorthand by a secretary.
221. Her private secretary has carefully trawled the West End for a suitable show.
222. His secretary has to bear the brunt of his temper.
223. This argument has been put forward by many politicians,(www.Sentencedict.com) most notably by the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary.
224. His secretary was formidably efficient: her minutes were works of art.
225. It is rumoured that he and his secretary are living together.
226. She started as a secretary but ended up running the department.
227. The new secretary starts in June, but in the interim we're having to type our own letters.
228. They had tapped a rich vein of information in his secretary.
229. He resigned as Home Secretary and returned to the back benches.
230. Nominally she is the secretary, but for all practical purposes she runs the place.
231. You should phone his secretary if you want to make an appointment .
232. This new office machine dispenses with the need for a secretary.
233. The chief engineer was represented at the meeting by his secretary.
234. Last year my husband owned up to a secret affair with his secretary.
235. I was heralded into his large office by his secretary.
236. The plan went by the board, the secretary is helping the old manager back sadly.
237. The evacuation is being organised at the request of the United Nations Secretary General.
238. She doubled as the secretary in the first act and the receptionist in the second.
239. He has been having a clandestine affair with his secretary for three years.
240. He's been trying to get his secretary into bed for ages.
More similar words: in secret, decrepit, decrease, military, secondary, voluntary, get around, retain, retail, elementary, concrete, documentary, retailer, planetarium, retaining, the proletariat, interpretation, recruit, sec., stare, star, second, insect, sector, start, target, section, secular, guitar, security.