press secretary

noun

: a person officially in charge of press relations for a usually prominent public figure

Examples of press secretary in a Sentence

the White House press secretary
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One is your two-season stint playing press secretary Annabeth Schott on The West Wing. Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Nov. 2025 Upper Press, or Room 140, as it is formally called, hosts the offices of press secretary Karoline Leavitt and other press aides. Scott Nover, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2025 Newsweek reached out to Mullin’s press secretary for comment via email on Friday. Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025 Adams, now 84, worked for the former first lady in the East Wing of the White House for about four years as her radio and television coordinator and eventually her deputy press secretary. Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for press secretary

Word History

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of press secretary was in 1945

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“Press secretary.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/press%20secretary. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.

Kids Definition

press secretary

noun
: a person in charge of relations with the press for a public figure
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