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Secretary vs Unsecretarial - What's the difference?

secretary | unsecretarial |

As a noun secretary

is someone entrusted with a secret; a confidant.

As a verb secretary

is to serve as a secretary of.

As an adjective unsecretarial is

not secretarial; not befitting a secretary.

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

    Related terms

    * secret * secretion * secretive * secretory

    Verb

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

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "secretary")

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    unsecretarial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not secretarial; not befitting a secretary.
  • * 1979 , David Sievert Lavender, Land of giants: the drive to the Pacific Northwest, 1750-1950
    • And so, after telling his private secretary, Meriwether Lewis, to brush up on such unsecretarial matters as natural science and the use of astronomical instruments...