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WAR SECRETARY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does War Secretary mean?
• WAR SECRETARY (noun)
The noun WAR SECRETARY has 1 sense:
1. head of a former executive department; combined with the Navy Secretary to form the Defense Secretary in 1947
Familiarity information: WAR SECRETARY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Head of a former executive department; combined with the Navy Secretary to form the Defense Secretary in 1947
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
Secretary of War; War Secretary
Hypernyms ("War Secretary" is a kind of...):
secretaryship (the position of secretary)
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