secretary Definition

secretary
noun secretaries

1. A person employed to perform administrative or clerical tasks for a company or individual.

Thesaurus: assistant, clerk, typist, stenographer.
2. The member of a club or society committee responsible for its correspondence and business records.
3. A senior civil servant assisting a government minister or ambassador.

Derivative: secretarial
adj

Referring or relating to secretaries or their work.

Etymology: 14c: from Latin secretarius person spoken to in confidence, from secretum secret.