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词汇 secretary
释义 secretary
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈsek.rə.tər.i/ us /ˈsek.rə.ter.i/

secretarynoun[C] (OFFICE)


A2
someone who works in an office, writing letters, making phone calls, and arranging meetings for a person or for an organization: 秘书
My secretary will phone you to arrange a meeting.我的秘书会打电话给你安排会议。
a competent secretary
Unless it's marked 'private', my secretary usually opens my post.
Their conversations were taken down in shorthand by a secretary.他们谈话的内容由一位秘书速记了下来。
Ever since our secretary walked out, the office has been in a state of chaos.
She works as a bilingual secretary for an insurance company.她在一家保险公司担任双语秘书。
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Types of employment
admin
administrative
administrative assistant
administratively
at the coalfaceidiom
job-share
job-sharing
jobbing
jobless
joblessness
professionalism
professionality
qualified
recertify
redundancy
well qualified
WFH
white-collar
who's whoidiom
wilderness yearsidiom

secretarynoun[C] (COMMITTEE)


C1
the member of a committee of an organization, club, etc. who keeps records of meetings, sends letters, emails, etc.: (委员会)秘书
The three elected members of the committee are the chair, secretary, and treasurer.委员会内有三个通过竞选得到的职位:主席、秘书和财务主管。
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Organizations, Societies & clubs
Assn
Assoc.
co-op
collegium
cooperative
establishment
fellowship
guild
host
lodge
mission
organization
shuffle
sub-organization
subchapter
subcommission
superclub
third party
trust
youth club

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Official meetings

secretarynoun[C] (OFFICIAL)


an official who has responsibility for the general management of an organization: (负责机构总体管理的)干事,文书
The company secretary has written to all the shareholders to apologize for the mistake.公司的文书已就这个错误向所有股东写信致歉了。
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Bosses & managers
administration
anti-management
branch manager
C-suite
CAO
co-president
comptroller
coo
coordinator
crew chief
hierarchy
industrialist
layer
line manager
majordomo
silent partner
slave driver
sleeping partner
subdirector
submanager
Secretary
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈsek.rə.təri/ us /ˈsek.rə.ter.i/
UK
a Secretary of State: (英国)国务大臣(同 Secretary of State)
the Foreign Secretary外交大臣
the Home Secretary内政大臣
US
the head of a government department, chosen by the president and not a member of a law-making group: 部长;大臣
the Secretary of Health and Human Services卫生和福利部部长
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Government ministers & civil servants
aide
am
attorney general
backbencher
cabinet
first minister
Foreign Secretary
functionary
government
Home Secretary
press secretary
private member
private secretary
Privy Councillor
procurator
syndic
town clerk
undersecretary
vizier
Whitehall

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International relations: United States politics & government

secretary | American Dictionary


secretary
noun[ C ]
us/ˈsek·rɪˌter·i/

secretarynoun[C] (OFFICE WORKER)


a person who works in an office and prepares letters, keeps records, schedules meetings, and makes other arrangements for a particular person or for an organization

secretarynoun[C] (GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL)


the head of a government department:
the Secretary of the Treasury

secretarynoun[C] (WRITER)


an official in an organization who is responsible for writing notes about what happens at meetings and sending official letters:
Freya is running for secretary of the student council.

secretary | Business English


secretary
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈsekrətəri/ussecretaries
WORKPLACE
someone who works in an office, writing letters, making telephone calls, organizing meetings, etc. for other people:
She works at the International Convention Centre as a secretary.
When I called, her secretary said she was in a meeting.
used in the names of some officials with particular responsibilities in some organizations:
The secretary takes the minutes of the meeting.
GOVERNMENT (alsoSecretary)
in the UK, a Member of Parliament or Member of the House of Lords who is in charge of a government department:
Energy/Home/Foreign Secretary
secretary of sthHe is a member of the Efficiency Commission and a former secretary of commerce.
the Secretary of State for Health
GOVERNMENT (alsoSecretary); (abbreviationSecy.)
in the US, the head of a government department appointed by the President:
Secretary of Defense
Defense/Commerce/Treasury Secretary

See also


company secretary
corporate secretary
executive secretary
general secretary
press secretary

Examples of secretary


secretary
The party secretary was accused of participating in the planning of the attack (their plan was not to inflict fatal injuries on the villagers).
A litigious society created an increased need for litigation masters, while local magistrates had to rely ever more heavily on private secretaries.
I settled on the executive vice president/chief medical offer and introduced myself to his secretary.
Before 1963 there was no full-time manager, administrative duties being handled by a secretary and volunteers who staffed the headquarters and the clinics.
Membership was confined to the regional commissioner, rural development officer, zonal rural development officer, regional technical officers and the administrative secretary.
With ministers being temporary, this task falls to the permanent secretary.
The permanent secretary, after reviewing both positions, re-introduced the two-tier system.
It opened the gate. 11 out of 32 permanent secretaries were removed.
As the party is the core of the leadership, the secretary has more power than you do.
What happened this year, the provincial secretaries had a lot of discussion, using their lists.
He looks much better in these borrowed plumes than when dressed as the secretary.
In the first model party secretaries dominate the village power structure, that is there are strong party secretaries but weak village chiefs.
Elected village chiefs increasingly resist party secretary control over village economic associations, and demand the right to control the village economy.
The letters and papers he received were preserved by his secretaries and family, not kept by himself for later use.
The regulations also made provisions for supernumerary secretary positions.
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Collocations withsecretary


secretary

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assistant secretary
I am the assistantsecretary.
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cabinet secretary
Barnet council's cabinet office was established last year and has two "non-political" members of staff—a full-time cabinet adviser and a part-time cabinetsecretary.
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deputy secretary
Only two were smaller craftsmen, and they held the relatively minor office of deputysecretary for a total of three years.
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