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Secretarial
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| the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language). |
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| secretary (ˈsɛkrətrɪ, -) | |
| —n , pl -taries | |
| 1. | a person who handles correspondence, keeps records, and does general clerical work for an individual, organization, etc |
| 2. | the official manager of the day-to-day business of a society or board |
| 3. | (in Britain) a senior civil servant who assists a government minister |
| 4. | (in the US and New Zealand) the head of a government administrative department |
| 5. | (in Britain) See secretary of state |
| 6. | (in Australia) the head of a public service department |
| 7. | diplomacy the assistant to an ambassador or diplomatic minister of certain countries |
| 8. | another name for secretaire |
| [C14: from Medieval Latin sēcrētārius, from Latin sēcrētum something hidden; see | |
| secretarial | |
| —adj | |
| 'secretaryship | |
| —n | |
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