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CHIEF SECRETARY

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Overview

CHIEF SECRETARY (noun)
  The noun CHIEF SECRETARY has 1 sense:

1. a member of the British Cabinetplay

  Familiarity information: CHIEF SECRETARY used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


CHIEF SECRETARY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the British Cabinet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Chief Secretary" is a kind of...):

cabinet minister (a person who is a member of the cabinet)

Holonyms ("Chief Secretary" is a member of...):

British Cabinet (the senior ministers of the British government)


 Context examples 


Lord of the Admiralty, 1872; Chief Secretary of State for——’ Well, well, this man is certainly one of the greatest subjects of the Crown!

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One of these was his present companion, Baron Von Herling, the chief secretary of the legation, whose huge 100-horse-power Benz car was blocking the country lane as it waited to waft its owner back to London.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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