noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a club secretary
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For further information about membership, contact the club secretary.
company secretary
Foreign Secretary
Home Secretary
press secretary
private secretary
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a parliamentary private secretary
secretary general
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the UN Secretary General
Secretary of State
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the Secretary of State for Transport
the Defence Secretary (= person in a government in charge of defence )
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The Defence Secretary is under pressure to resign.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
assistant
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And it was well worth it, argued Edward Walker, an assistant secretary of state.
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The other was Dean Rusk, assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern affairs.
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This is particularly true at the assistant secretary level.
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Gerry Dicker, vice president and assistant secretary .
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Huang was employed at Lippo for nine years before he joined the Commerce Department as deputy assistant secretary for international economic policy.
cabinet
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Zingale also said he hopes for the appointment of an openly gay Cabinet secretary .
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The president has been known to circle something in a letter and pass it on to a top aide or Cabinet secretary .
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Next weekend, Clinton will hold a retreat for Cabinet secretaries and senior staff at Camp David.
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Three years later, four cabinet secretaries have faced Justice Department investigations on ethics charges.
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If Dole becomes president and McCain becomes a Cabinet secretary , Symington could appoint himself as replacement.
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So did cabinet secretaries , members of Congress, two former governors, current state officials, and scores of local dignitaries.
chief
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The chief cabinet secretary , Mikio Aoki, has been named acting prime minister.
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And how is it possible that, to all appearances, neither the Treasury nor its chief secretary knew about it?
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The chief secretary warned of the trouble it could cause if Eva moved the family.
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The previous year her chief secretary had travelled home on black ice and thick snow.
deputy
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Hestarted working in Fujian in 1985 as the provincial deputy party secretary , moving into the top job in 1994.
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Dean Rusk, deputy under secretary of state at the time, heralded the change in his characteristically bland style.
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Huang was employed at Lippo for nine years before he joined the Commerce Department as deputy assistant secretary for international economic policy.
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Powell lost his bid to have his ally Richard Armitage, appointed as deputy defence secretary under Rumsfeld.
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Paul M.. Thayer, deputy secretary of defense, pleaded guilty to obstructing justice and lying.
foreign
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That is enough for now, thinks Britain's foreign secretary , Douglas Hurd.
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As David Carlton stresses, Eden was not the most unequivocal foreign secretary .
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During his two-week visit to Britain he is due to meet the foreign secretary , Douglas Hurd.
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It was Gerald Kaufman, shadow foreign secretary , who did that for him, in a speech of vast sweeping grasp.
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During his second and more important period as foreign secretary in 1822-27 Canning went considerably further in this direction.
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Anthony Edne, the foreign secretary , was more cautious.
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Herbert Morrison, the foreign secretary , was among the more belligerent.
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Some ministers, including Sir Geoffrey Howe, the foreign secretary , are simply not interested in environmental issues.
general
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Gorbachev's re-election as general secretary Gorbachev was re-elected general secretary on July 10 by secret ballot.
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Mr McLaughlin, 44 years old, was senior vice president, general counsel and secretary .
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League general secretary Ron Bridges has blasted clubs who try to create a web of deception after being caught cheating.
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But Larry Whitty, general secretary , said under party rules policy statements, such as the manifesto, were not amendable.
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Labour's general secretary , Margaret McDonagh, called for the Short cash to be audited separately.
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Georges Hawi was re-elected as general secretary , with Faruq Dahruj as his deputy.
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The congress also selected a new 249-member central committee and elected Ambroise Noumazalay to the newly created post of general secretary .
honorary
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A cheque for that amount in pounds was later presented to Captain Shearer, honorary secretary of Eastbourne lifeboat.
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And she is honorary secretary of the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors, which also tackles live issues in the area.
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Rawnsley, honorary secretary until his death, oversaw the acquisition of large areas of countryside.
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A keen music lover he was also honorary general secretary of the Darlington Music Festival which finished at the weekend.
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She was honorary secretary of the Schoolmistresses' Association and in 1867 its president.
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She joined the Women's Social and Political Union and became its joint honorary secretary .
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She served as its honorary secretary and then as chairman.
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He was president of the county in 1964 and 1965 and was honorary secretary for 26 years until his death.
legal
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A LEGAL secretary who claimed she had been unfairly dismissed from work during sick leave is considering appealing after losing her case.
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Carroll, a 53-year-old legal secretary who was stabbed and slashed 61 times at her home in northeast Escondido.
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I am a single 33-year-old woman employed as a legal secretary .
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She also mentioned that her daughter is a legal secretary .
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On the jury questionnaire the woman listed her daughter as a legal secretary but neglected to say she was employed by Garcetti.
new
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Serge's new secretary opened Lili's mail and answered the telephone.
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Tedford was a career army man before he became the Luffness New secretary .
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If Cheney is a new kind of vice-president, Powell is also a new kind of secretary of state.
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Gaggia machines burbled on marble bars, new secretaries clicked across polished floors, uniformed valets twirled glass doors.
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The new secretary set out to run the navy like a business.
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Her new secretary was arriving and was going to share her flat for a while.
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The new secretary is Debbie Harrison.
parliamentary
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The function of the parliamentary state secretaries has not yet been clearly established.
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Nominally he merely continued as parliamentary private secretary to Law at the Treasury.
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The only ministers not belonging to the Cabinet are the parliamentary state secretaries .
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Stavenhagen was replaced by Bernd Schmidbauer, 52, parliamentary state secretary in the Environment Ministry.
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Were the reported remarks of his parliamentary private secretary in accordance with an official departmental brief?
permanent
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This week, for example, the permanent secretaries of all government departments will meet to discuss best practice in procurement.
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He would have been a jolly good permanent secretary .
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He liked to sit seeing others, including the permanent secretaries , arguing in front of him.
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Within an hour the permanent secretary was banging away on his typewriter to prepare Alexi's forms.
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It was hierarchical, with silly rows about the status and pay of its permanent secretary , Sir Eric Roll.
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By the end of the afternoon the permanent secretary had signed the stencils.
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In Opposition days, Heath the permanent secretary manqué set about preparing for government with a will.
personal
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She strode through the door to the outer office of his sanctum, past his personal secretary , who blinked in astonishment.
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The Prime Minister's personal secretary , Ian Gow, also resigned.
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He met Cherry, the personal secretary to Hampshire museum's boss, six years ago.
private
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Nominally he merely continued as parliamentary private secretary to Law at the Treasury.
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At the same time one had to advise the Ambassador's private secretary of the change.
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In the ensuing Parliament he served as a private secretary at the Colonial Office.
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The new organization had the Secretary of State at its head assisted by a private secretary and a Précis Writer.
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He sent his private secretary down the corridor to see Sir Norman Brook to ask if they could be provided.
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Were the reported remarks of his parliamentary private secretary in accordance with an official departmental brief?
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The message was from his private secretary at the Ministry.
■ NOUN
company
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He is a cost accountant and also acts as company secretary in respect of share issues, pensions and the like.
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Its chairman and company secretary are being questioned by police investigating allegations of fraud.
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A company which has a sole director is required by s. 283 to have another person as its company secretary .
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The normal practice is to appoint two or more directors, one of whom is the company secretary .
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Mrs X, who also has other employment, is company secretary .
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Arguably the company secretary was acting as agent for the shareholders.
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Having said that, the fact is that Mrs X is company secretary and therefore a company employee.
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He ran out of coins and asked the company secretary to ring him back.
defence
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Since he resigned as defence secretary over the Westland helicopter affair in 1986, he has campaigned for an active industrial policy.
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But Donald Rumsfeld's appointment as defence secretary makes those predictions look naive.
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The defence secretary paused, and then said that such questions were decided by the president, not by him.
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Powell lost his bid to have his ally Richard Armitage, appointed as deputy defence secretary under Rumsfeld.
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One notable exception was John Tower, the choice for defence secretary of former president George Bush.
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Mr Bush has been careful to balance practical types like his defence secretary , Donald Rumsfeld, with policy wonks.
defense
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Absent was the fumbling that has accompanied previous Clinton appointments, from attorney-general to defense secretary and surgeon-general.
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John Tower, R-Texas, as defense secretary .
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Cohen made his comments during his first news conference since becoming defense secretary .
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Henry H.. Shelton expressed concern last week to Rumsfeld about the defense secretary s review of the military.
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The incoming defense secretary , with Army Gen.
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He expected more loyalty, he told his defense secretary heatedly.
education
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Which is not to say that the education secretary should not be attacked.
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Alexander, a former education secretary , favors longer school days and a longer school year.
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It was the education secretary who insisted on a nationwide literacy and numeracy hour, not the chief inspector.
health
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The former health secretary brushed aside talk of a demotion by referring to himself as the new Minister for Majorism.
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William Bennett, a former drug tsar, was a vociferous foe, as is Louis Sullivan, the health secretary .
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Despite official denials, William Waldegrave, the health secretary , is unpopular in Downing Street.
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The new programme was announced yesterday by health secretary William Waldegrave.
home
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An apparently dangerous criminal may be hospitalised with a restriction stipulating that only the Home secretary can authorise his release.
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The home secretary , Kenneth Baker, launched a £4.5m campaign to recruit thousands more special constables.
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Punishing the criminal Home secretary Jack Straw has a policy of placing more young offenders in custody.
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James Callaghan, the home secretary , said that the idea was absurd and that the Northern Ireland government would dislike it.
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While he remained shadow home secretary , that was how matters were destined to remain.
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But the shadow home secretary , Ann Widdecombe, said this week that the Tories were responding to people's concerns.
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Although it acquired critical mass in the Tory years, no home secretary would listen to it.
press
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John Buckley, once a Kemp press secretary , is director of communications for the Dole campaign.
state
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The function of the parliamentary state secretaries has not yet been clearly established.
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Gerald Whitburn, state secretary of health and human services, said a decision on Elias' successor has not been reached.
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The example of state secretary Joël in the Reich Justice Ministry was typical.
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The only ministers not belonging to the Cabinet are the parliamentary state secretaries .
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Ministries send in monthly reports which are annotated and submitted to the Chancellor via the state secretaries .
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The head of the Office presides over the informal cabinet of state secretaries - the Ministerialbürokratie - which meets on Monday mornings.
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Stavenhagen was replaced by Bernd Schmidbauer, 52, parliamentary state secretary in the Environment Ministry.
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Adenauer's ministers in particular had the appearance of Imperial state secretaries .
treasury
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Under a treasury secretary whom Wall Street trusted less, this dancing on the wire could well have ended messily.
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This makes the treasury secretary more secure than most of those who buzz around the honey pot of power.
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Louis banker and now treasury secretary .
■ VERB
become
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In 1879 the Workhouse Infirmary Nursing Association was founded to train and supply nurses, and she became secretary .
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Tedford was a career army man before he became the Luffness New secretary .
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A staunch anti-communist, Craxi became party secretary in 1976 after a palace coup.
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After some investigation, Stroud said it became pretty clear that secretaries were leaving because they had been outsourced.
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He became general secretary in 1982 after serving 17 years as secretary of the Durham branch.
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Before becoming trade and commerce secretary , Wright was director of the California Department of Commerce for two years.
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He became secretary and presiding genius, but was soon forced out because of his demands.
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Secretaries are becoming managers and many managers are becoming secretaries !
serve
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He became general secretary in 1982 after serving 17 years as secretary of the Durham branch.
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In the ensuing Parliament he served as a private secretary at the Colonial Office.
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Vanreenen relinquished his membership and served as secretary for six years; the Honorable Company prohibits members from working for the club.
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She served as its honorary secretary and then as chairman.
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Brigham Young became governor of the territory with his two counselors serving as secretary and chief justice.
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He coordinated Ernesto Ruffo's historic 1989 campaign and served as his secretary of finance.
work
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Michelle works as a part-time secretary .
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Women worked as schoolteachers, secretaries , clerks or telephone operators.
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In 1975 she started to work as secretary to Tom Horton, in finance.
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Those were the days when men worked as secretaries .
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However, if you go to work as a secretary in a consultancy this can often lead to assisting an executive.
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She worked as a secretary , and loathed it - but she couldn't decide what she really wanted to do.
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She had worked as a secretary before, at the age of 19 years, marrying Mr. O'Brien.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Shadow Chancellor/Foreign Secretary etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the secretary of the chess club
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A secretary pops in to say that a lawyer insists on talking with Meagher immediately by phone.
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A company which has a sole director is required by s. 283 to have another person as its company secretary .
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But good news came when Truman appointed Dean Acheson secretary of state.
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He must have asked his secretary for the file on Andy, and she got the wrong one.
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He wants to be Northern Ireland secretary .
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The secretary lost Awlad Amira support and became a night watchman in a school.
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The secretary was enormously dissatisfied with how some of our programs were being managed, and made no bones about it.