as in clerks
an official whose job is to keep records
file your intent to run for office with the city secretary
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Recent Examples of secretaries
Searches of business records kept by the Colorado and Kansas secretaries of state did not show an entity registered with that name in either state, though a business with that name is registered in Delaware.
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Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026
At certain points in his second term, various Cabinet secretaries have allegedly been on the outs but then managed to survive.
—Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026
The board also approved cutting positions at multiple school sites, including assistant principals, high school teachers, special education specialists, custodians and secretaries, as well as the district’s only communications director.
—Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2026
Yet Trump made clear in his meeting with Cabinet secretaries that greater opportunities to buy homes shouldn't mean lowering costs, even as Americans voice concerns about the price tag to buy a home.
—Joey Garrison, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
There was a heavy presence of cabinet secretaries, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 29 Jan. 2026
But while publicly lauding the diligence of IRS officials is an appropriate move for Treasury secretaries, those officials will need resources, and possibly more colleagues, to maintain it.
—Marie Sapirie, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
They were joined by five former Treasury secretaries appointed by presidents of both political parties and other former high-ranking economic officials.
—Arkansas Online, 21 Jan. 2026
With the exception of Powell, every living Federal Reserve board chair, plus Treasury secretaries, and prominent economists from both parties have signed on to Supreme Court briefs urging the justices not to tinker with the Fed's independence.
—Nina Totenberg, NPR, 21 Jan. 2026
Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026
At certain points in his second term, various Cabinet secretaries have allegedly been on the outs but then managed to survive.
—Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026
The board also approved cutting positions at multiple school sites, including assistant principals, high school teachers, special education specialists, custodians and secretaries, as well as the district’s only communications director.
—Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2026
Yet Trump made clear in his meeting with Cabinet secretaries that greater opportunities to buy homes shouldn't mean lowering costs, even as Americans voice concerns about the price tag to buy a home.
—Joey Garrison, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
There was a heavy presence of cabinet secretaries, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 29 Jan. 2026
But while publicly lauding the diligence of IRS officials is an appropriate move for Treasury secretaries, those officials will need resources, and possibly more colleagues, to maintain it.
—Marie Sapirie, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
They were joined by five former Treasury secretaries appointed by presidents of both political parties and other former high-ranking economic officials.
—Arkansas Online, 21 Jan. 2026
With the exception of Powell, every living Federal Reserve board chair, plus Treasury secretaries, and prominent economists from both parties have signed on to Supreme Court briefs urging the justices not to tinker with the Fed's independence.
—Nina Totenberg, NPR, 21 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for secretaries
Noun
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Drivers anxious to pay their tickets right away were unable to because clerks couldn’t yet match their payment with violations.—
A.D. Quig,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2026
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In the fall, election clerks worked late into the night to process more than 70,000 voter registrations that had piled up while the county switched to the Texas Secretary of State's software for processing registrations.—
Saul Pink,
San Antonio Express-News,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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And in ordinary academic buildings and offices tucked up in the corners of the athletic department, university registrars and academic advisors were setting their hair on fire, trying to figure out how to approve transcripts and shoehorn new students into classes that were already full.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026
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Advertisement For the next several years, activists knocked on the doors of sharecroppers and drove folks to county registrars’ offices, often facing denials or delays, arrests, and violence.—
Time,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Secretaries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secretaries. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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