secretary

secretary is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 14 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets.
2. noun. A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public or private papers, records, and the like; an official scribe, amanuensis, or writer; one who attends to correspondence, and transacts other business, for an association, a public body, or an individual.
3. noun. An officer of state whose business is to superintend and manage the affairs of a particular department of government, and who is usually a member of the cabinet or advisory council of the chief executive; as, the secretary of state, who conducts the correspondence and attends to the relations of a government with foreign courts; the secretary of the treasury, who manages the department of finance; the secretary of war, etc.
4. noun. A piece of furniture, with conveniences for writing and for the arrangement of papers; an escritoire.
5. noun. The secretary bird.
6. noun. a desk used for writing

   Synonyms: escritoire, secretaire

7. noun. a person to whom a secret is entrusted

   Synonyms: repository

8. noun. an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization
9. noun. a person who is head of an administrative department of government

Synonyms

escritoire, secretaire, repository

Common word forms

secretaries

Words from these letters

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