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social secretary
noun
: a personal secretary employed to handle social correspondence and appointments
Examples of social secretary in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Kundera’s wife, Vera, was an essential companion to a reclusive man who eschewed technology — his translator, his social secretary, and ultimately his buffer against the outside world.
—Elaine Ganley, Fortune, 12 July 2023
No, not necessarily those intimates, but her confidantes, her hairdresser, her social secretary and, briefly, her young children.
—Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2024
The elegant Gypsy Queen, Emblem Joyce, opened a tableau that brought forth 15 float contingents, each representing a different musical genre, and each earning raves for costumes and flair from the Observer’s social secretary Floral Headpiece and his brusque bodyguard Dark Hallway.
—The Masked Observer, al, 20 Feb. 2022
Carlos Elizondo, who was social secretary for Jill Biden during the Obama administration, will reprise his role and serve as social secretary for the incoming first lady.
—Alexandra Jaffe, Star Tribune, 20 Nov. 2020
Of course, when the dining is about high-stakes diplomacy, the menu is chosen with guests’ needs and preferences in mind (the State Department’s chief of protocol typically works with the White House social secretary on this before the menu planning starts).
—Emily Heil, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
In November, Carlos Elizondo, who is gay and was Biden’s social secretary when Biden was vice president, was named White House social secretary.
—NBC News, 4 Dec. 2020
From her second-floor office in the East Wing, Mrs. Timmins helped shape interviews, luncheons, state dinners and other public appearances by the first lady, working closely with Salinger and with Letitia Baldrige and Nancy Tuckerman, who served as successive White House social secretaries.
—Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
Carlos Elizondo, who was Biden’s social secretary when Biden was vice president, has been named White House social secretary.
—Stuart Emmrich, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2020
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Word History
First Known Use
1892, in the meaning defined above
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“Social secretary.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social%20secretary. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
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