private secretary

noun

a person who attends to the individual or confidential correspondence, files, etc., of a business executive, official, or the like.

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1765–75

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private secretary

—n
1.	a secretary entrusted with the personal and confidential matters of a business executive
2.	Compare parliamentary private secretary a civil servant who acts as aide to a minister or senior government official

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