Synonyms of secretaries

secretaries

noun

plural of secretary

as in clerks

an official whose job is to keep records

file your intent to run for office with the city secretary

Synonyms & Similar Words

• clerks
• registrars
• registers
• reporters
• bookkeepers
• archivists
• scribes
• recorders
• historians
• transcriptionists
• chroniclers
• annalists
• documenters

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of secretaries

Perhaps a handful of judges would be confirmed, but Cabinet secretaries would face long slogs. — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2026

To do that work, the state plans to add as many as four deputy attorneys general, a legal analyst and three legal secretaries, according to a legislative analyst’s report. — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026

After work and over breaks for coffee, other secretaries told comparable stories. — Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026

Meanwhile, the lawmakers, three former Education secretaries and the largest federal employee union are calling for an inspector general investigation into the mass firings made at the department last year. — Arthur Jones Ii, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026

The Hatch Act bars federal employees, including Cabinet secretaries, from using their official authority or influence to affect the result of an election. — Marissa Payne, Des Moines Register, 15 Sep. 2026

PCs should have eliminated secretaries but simultaneously created more work in scheduling, communication and document production, which are now handled by executive assistants. — Andy Schachtel, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

Other Treasury secretaries have been involved in political conventions. — Matt Peterson,lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026

Upstairs in the club’s offices in Soho, central London, Palace’s hierarchy, recruitment team, secretaries and other staff worked frantically under pressure as the 11pm deadline ticked ever closer. — Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026