secretarialadj.
/sɛkrɪˈtɛːrɪəl/ a.
(a) Of or pertaining to a secretary or secretaries.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > non-manual worker > [adjective] > secretarial
secretariana1734
secretarial1801
1801 J. Bentham Mem. & Corr. in Wks. (1843) X. 362 Mr. Rose promised..to place it with his own secretarial hands..on..the table of Mr. Pitt.
1851 C. Dickens Let. 10 Feb. (1988) VI. 289 I should like to have a talk with you about the Secretarial duties.
1897 F. Marryat Blood of Vampire xi Mr. Milliken would be much occupied with secretarial work.
(b) spec. designed for the training of office secretaries, as secretarial college, secretarial course, secretarial school.
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1922 A. L. Church Training of Secretary Index 193 Secretarial schools.
1935 R. Strachey Careers & Openings for Women ii. iv. 140 Short six or seven months' secretarial courses to make sure of an early start.
1935 L. H. Turner Dict. Careers 73 A few [scholarships are] given by the leading secretarial colleges.
1941 A. Huxley Let. 27 Nov. (1969) 473 Sophie has deserted acting for a secretarial school.
1953 B. Gordon-Cumming Gentle Rain 119 I went through secretarial courses and things like that.
1967 K. Giles Death in Diamonds i. 7 I finished secretarial school and I speak four languages.
1976 M. Maguire Scratchproof vii. 107 She'd left secretarial college bubbling with big job enthusiasm.
b. Of type: = secretary n.1 4.
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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [adjective] > black letter or Gothic
black letter1763
Gothic1781
secretarial1864
1864 Panizzi in Fine Arts Q. Rev. II. 183 M. Francesco da Bologna..has devised a new form of letter, called cursive or secretarial.
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