Definition: 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.
Use 'secretary' in a sentence:
1. He tells his secretary to hold his calls.
2. The study received a lukewarm response from the Home Secretary.
3. I was a lousy secretary.
4. My secretary has threatened to leave.
5. The secretary ushered me into his office.
6. The Foreign Secretary is currently having talks with his opposite number in the White House.
7. His secretary stopped taking notes to gape at me.
8. He dictated a letter to his secretary.
9. He resigned as Home Secretary and returned to the back benches.
10. I just can't get along without a secretary.
11. The Secretary of State has the power to approve the proposals.
12. You would be hard-pressed to find a better secretary.
13. He sat in his office bawling orders at his secretary.
14. The Secretary-General was asked to mediate in the dispute.
15. She wanted to be more than just a two-bit secretary.
16. The Secretary of State has given in to special pleading.
17. The final word will still come from the Secretary of State.
18. The education secretary poured cold water on the recommendations of a working party.
19. The Health Secretary called for a return to traditional family values.
20. She can't do without a secretary.
21. I escalated to the dizzy heights of director's secretary.
22. The proposals were given in outline by the Secretary of State.
23. Sheila found some work as a secretary in an insurance company.
24. He was just about to drive off when the secretary came running out.
25. My secretary is very good at filtering my calls.
26. The president has appointed a civilian as defence secretary.
27. Bromfield was slated to become U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.
28. The new secretary will relieve us of some of the paperwork.
29. She was a secretary on the local parochial church council.
30. The labour secretary said the reforms would generate new jobs.
31. She chatted for a few minutes about the qualities she considered desirable in a secretary.
32. Please contact my secretary to make an appointment.
33. Membership fees should be paid to the secretary.
34. It was a typically robust performance by the Foreign Secretary.
35. We hired a new secretary.
36. His secretary acts as a gatekeeper, reading all mail before it reaches her boss.
37. They had tapped a rich vein of information in his secretary.
38. She was elected to serve as secretary of the local party.
39. They placed an advertisement in the local paper for a secretary.
40. She earned a living as a part-time secretary.
41. She started as a secretary but ended up running the department.
42. The UN secretary-general seconded the appeal for peace.
43. She worked as a secretary, or rather, a personal assistant.
44. The Press Secretary serves as the President's mouthpiece.
45. My job is somewhere between a secretary and a personal assistant.
46. Tim, may I introduce you to my uncle's secretary, Mary Waller?
