Secretary vs Unsecretarial - What's the difference?
secretary | unsecretarial |
(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.
(senseid)(US) A type of desk, secretary desk; a secretaire.
(senseid)A secretary bird, a bird of the species Sagittarius serpentarius .
To serve as a secretary of.
Not secretarial; not befitting a secretary.
* 1979 , David Sievert Lavender, Land of giants: the drive to the Pacific Northwest, 1750-1950
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)- Ban Ki-Moon is the current secretary general of the United Nations.
Derived terms
* secretary bird * secretary deskVerb
(en-verb)Quotations
* (English Citations of "secretary")External links
* * *unsecretarial
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Adjective
(en adjective)- 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...