parliamentary secretary
noun
(Originally) a parliamentary officer ranking below and acting as assistant to a minister; (subsequently) a person holding the most junior ministerial rank.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Treasury Minutes.
- powder metallurgy
- powder-mill
- powder mine
- powder monkey
- powder one's nose
- powderous
- powder paint
- powder paper
- powder pattern
- powder pink
- powder plot
- powder plotter
- powder-post
- powder-post beetle
- powder pot
- powder puff
- powder rag
- Powder River
- powder room
- powder-scuttle
- powder slope
- powder snow
- powder sugar
- powder tax
- powder treason