SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Secretary of Veterans Affairs mean? 

• SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (noun)
  The noun SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS has 2 senses:

1. the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Veterans Affairs

2. the position of the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs

  Familiarity information: SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Veterans Affairs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

Bush appointed Edward J. Derwinski as the first Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Hypernyms ("Secretary of Veterans Affairs" is a kind of...):

secretary (a person who is head of an administrative department of government)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The position of the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the post of Secretary of Veterans Affairs was created in 1989

Hypernyms ("Secretary of Veterans Affairs" is a kind of...):

secretaryship (the position of secretary)

Holonyms ("Secretary of Veterans Affairs" is a member of...):

United States Cabinet; US Cabinet (a board to advise the President; members are the secretaries of executive departments; the United States constitution does not provide for the cabinet)