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Secretary vs Controller - What's the difference?

secretary | controller |

As nouns the difference between secretary and controller

is that secretary is someone entrusted with a secret; a confidant while controller is one who controls something.

As a verb secretary

is to serve as a secretary of.

secretary

English

Noun

(wikipedia secretary) (secretaries)
  • (obsolete) Someone entrusted with a secret; a confidant.
  • (senseid)A person who keeps records, takes notes and handles general clerical work.
  • (senseid)(often, capitalized) The head of a department of government.
  • (senseid)A managerial or leading position in certain non-profit organizations, such as political parties, trade unions, international organizations.
  • Ban Ki-Moon is the current secretary general of the United Nations.
  • (senseid)(US) A type of desk, secretary desk; a secretaire.
  • (senseid)A secretary bird, a bird of the species Sagittarius serpentarius .
  • Derived terms

    * secretary bird * secretary desk

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To serve as a secretary of.
  • controller

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who controls something.
  • * (rfdate) (Dryden)
  • The great controller of our fate / Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate.
  • (business) A person who audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
  • (computing) A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
  • (nautical) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.
  • Synonyms

    * administrator * foreman * chief, head, head man * comptroller * overseer * organizer * superintendent * supervisor

    Derived terms

    * memory controller * microcontroller