Usually means: Administrative professional managing office tasks.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word secretary:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. secretary: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. secretary: Merriam-Webster
  3. secretary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. secretary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. secretary: Collins English Dictionary
  6. secretary: Vocabulary.com
  7. Secretary, secretary: Wordnik
  8. Secretary, secretary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Secretary, secretary: Wiktionary
  10. secretary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. secretary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. secretary: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. secretary: Dictionary.com
  14. secretary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Secretary (disambiguation), Secretary (film), Secretary (title), Secretary, The Secretary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Secretary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. secretary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. secretary: Rhymezone
  19. secretary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. secretary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. secretary: FreeDictionary.org
  22. secretary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. secretary: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. secretary: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. Secretary (corporation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  26. secretary: Online Etymology Dictionary

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. secretary: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. secretary: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Secretary: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. secretary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Secretary: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Secretary: Sports Definitions

(Note: See secretarial as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obsolete) Someone entrusted with a secret; a confidant.
noun:  (obsolete) Someone employed as a scribe for personal correspondence.
noun:  A person who keeps records, takes notes and handles general clerical work.
noun:  (often capitalized) The head of a department of government.
noun:  A managerial or leading position in certain non-profit organizations, such as political parties, trade unions, international organizations.
noun:  (US) A type of desk, secretary desk; a secretaire.
noun:  A secretary bird, a bird of the species Sagittarius serpentarius.
verb:  (transitive) To serve as a secretary of.
noun:  A town in Maryland.

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