a person who is employed to handle correspondence and manage routine administrative work for an individual or organization
= company secretary
an officebearer of an organization or society responsible for its records and correspondence
in Britain, a senior civil servant who acts as assistant to a minister or ambassador
= secretary of state
the Home Secretary
in the USA, an officer of state who superintends a government administrative department
= secretaire
secretarial /-ʹteəri·əl/ adj
secretaryship noun
[Middle English secretarie person entrusted with a secret, from medieval Latin secretarius confidential employee, secretary, from Latin secretum a secret, neuter of secretus: see secret1]