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secretary

noun

ˈse-krə-ˌter-ē

Definition of secretary

as in registrar

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 secretary But Andy Burnham’s new education secretary, Lucy Powell, has blamed Gove’s school reforms for Britain’s youth worklessness crisis. — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 4 Aug. 2026 Beshear has no authority, secretary of state says The dispute centers on who gets to decide how a vacant Kentucky Senate seat is filled. — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026 In its push, the secretary of Homeland Security has waived numerous regulations designed to protect the environment, wildlife, archaeological and Native American sites. — Rebecca Santana, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026 The Democratic front-runner is Jocelyn Benson, Michigan's secretary of state since 2019, according to the Cook Political Report. — Maham Javaid, NPR, 4 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for secretary

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The Bayeux Tapestry‘s journey to the British Museum was made possible by a remarkable team of conservators, registrars, engineers, and specialist art handlers whose work is rarely seen by the public—and the Times of London has given them their due.

— George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Those eligible to vote can visit the state’s online voter registration portal to sign up, apply in person to your town clerk or registrar, or download a paper form in English or Spanish and mail it in to your town’s registrar of voters office.

— Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026

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Hersey — reporting on a clerk, a tailor’s widow, two doctors, a priest, and a pastor — gave US readers their first sense of what the new superweapon did to human bodies.

— Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 6 Aug. 2026
His military occupational specialty was warehouse clerk, and his final assignment was with the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion at Camp Pendleton.

— Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026

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