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 McAfee’s Social Privacy Manager becomes your social secretary, examining all your accounts, developing recommendations for better privacy, and (with your permission) correcting those settings. PCMAG, 7 Oct. 2024 In 2018, Jeremy Bernard, a former social secretary in the Obama White House, took on the role of CEO of the Mayor’s Fund. Tom Dreisbach, NPR, 3 Sep. 2024 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 See all Example Sentences for social secretary 

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Word History

First Known Use

1892, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of social secretary was in 1892

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“Social secretary.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social%20secretary. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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