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Definition of Secretary
Sec´re`ta`ry | n. | 1. | One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. | | 2. | A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public or private papers, records, and the like; an official scribe, amanuensis, or writer; one who attends to correspondence, and transacts other business, for an association, a public body, or an individual. | | 3. | An officer of state whose business is to superintend and manage the affairs of a particular department of government, and who is usually a member of the cabinet or advisory council of the chief executive; as, the secretary of state, who conducts the correspondence and attends to the relations of a government with foreign courts; the secretary of the treasury, who manages the department of finance; the secretary of war, etc. | | 4. | A piece of furniture, with conveniences for writing and for the arrangement of papers; an escritoire. | | 5. | (Zool.) The secretary bird. |
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