Usually means: Senior civil servant, government administration.
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We found 7 dictionaries that define the word Permanent secretary:

General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. permanent secretary: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Permanent Secretary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Permanent Secretary: Collins English Dictionary
  4. permanent secretary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. Permanent Secretary (Denmark), Permanent Secretary, Permanent secretary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wikipedia (Permanent secretary)

noun:  A permanent secretary is the most senior civil servant of a department or ministry charged with running the department or ministry's day-to-day activities.
noun:  the most senior civil servant of a Danish Government ministry, charged with running the department on a day-to-day basis.
noun:  A permanent under-secretary of state, known informally as a permanent secretary, is the most senior civil servant of a ministry in the United Kingdom, charged with running the department on a day-to-day basis.


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