| Secretary 1. (n.) One who keeps, or is entrusted with, secrets or notes. 2. (n.) A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public or private papers, records, and the like; an official scribe, amanuensis, or writer; one who attends to correspondence, and transacts other business, for an association, a public body, or an individual. 3. (n.) An officer of state whose business is to superintend and manage the affairs of a particular department of government, and who is usually a member of the cabinet or advisory council of the chief executive; as, the secretary of state, who conducts the correspondence and attends to the relations of a government with foreign courts; the secretary of the treasury, who manages the department of finance; the secretary of war, etc. 4. (n.) A piece of furniture, with conveniences for writing and for the arrangement of papers; an escritoire. 5. (n.) The secretary bird. Thesaurus Entries CA, CPA, abacist, accountant general, actuary, amanuensis, archivist, auditor, bank accountant, bank examiner, bookkeeper, bursar, calculator, cashier, cashkeeper, certified public accountant, chamberlain, chartered accountant, clerk, comptroller, computer, controller, cost accountant, cost keeper, curator, depositary, depository, documentalist, engraver, estimator, figurer, filing clerk, financial officer, journalizer, librarian, liquidator, marker, notary, notary public, paymaster, prothonotary, purse bearer, purser, receiver, reckoner, record clerk, recorder, recordist, register, registrar, scorekeeper, scorer, scribe, scrivener, secretary, statistician, stenographer, steward, stonecutter, timekeeper, treasurer, trustee |