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secretary

noun as in office worker

noun as in desk

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And compare, as noted up top, to Secretary Clinton, who spent years quietly pushing a modernized Cuba policy.

The certification, which lasts three years, was renewed by then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in 2012.

Even Defense Secretary Gates, at least for a time, was open to the notion.

In order to withhold the photographs, the secretary of defense must certify that photographs could cause harm to Americans.

ALEC echoed the ideology of Charles Wilson, the first Defense Secretary in the Eisenhower administration.

He desired his secretary to go to the devil, but, thinking better of it, he recalled him as he reached the door.

At his desk sat his secretary, who had been a witness of the interview, lost in wonder almost as great as the Seneschal's own.

I should pay a capable secretary like you—knowing several languages and all that—say forty dollars a week.

Probably his Private Secretary, considering you a new man, will have failed to furnish the necessary information.

And here let me point out for your future guidance the importance of having a private secretary thoroughly up to his work.

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On this page you'll find 30 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to secretary, such as: assistant, clerk, executive secretary, receptionist, typist, and word processor.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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