secretary

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She worked at the school district as a secretary and had access to the grading software.

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Quick take

a person who is head of an administrative department of government

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a person who is head of an administrative department of government

noun

an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization

noun

a person to whom a secret is entrusted

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for secretary.

noun

a person who is head of an administrative department of government

noun

an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization

noun

a person to whom a secret is entrusted

noun

a desk used for writing

Example sentences

She worked at the school district as a secretary and had access to the grading software.

At the time, the course secretary was a middle-aged women with a desk outside of the MechE administrative offices.

I walked into the MechE office, exchanged pleasantries with the secretary and asked to see my adviser.

Those other students really saw her as just a "secretary" who had no business running interference between students that were clearly her betters.

Why should we take you more seriously than someone who says "I was a secretary at the NSA for years and I never heard of anything bad happening, therefore nothing bad happened"?

"During his presidency they were reported to frequently display their affection for one another; one press secretary said, "They never took each other for granted.

After one interaction I witnessed between the secretary and another student, I finally began to understand.

I wrote letters to the border agency, the prison governor and the home secretary and he was granted asylum and an interpreter was arranged so that his legal visits would be more productive.

Reading this article is surreal, like living in an alternate world: "...and because theres so much federal funding for science".Reminds me of the joke:Rabbi Altmann and his secretary were sitting in a coffeehouse in Berlin in 1935.

My common courtesy wake-up call: MIT mechanical engineering students often had to go through the course "secretary" to see their faculty advisers of high-level MechE professors.