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Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

3 5.0
The head of the United States government department for housing and cities
  • noun
  • Formal
translation icon : Secretario de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano
  • The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development announced new policies to improve affordable housing across the country.
  • Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Kemp
  • Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack
  • Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Cisneros

Examples

  • His Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was Andrew Cuomo, now governor of New York and an apparent presidential wannabe.

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  • And the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD") to identify federal buildings and real properties that are currently underutilized and to develop criteria with respect to the suitability of such buildings for housing the homeless.

    Academic text (2017)

  • This past Saturday, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan spoke at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, as part of the museum's Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream.

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  • Julian Castro served as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development during President Obama's administration.

  • As the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, he played a key role in addressing urban development challenges.

Surface Forms

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development singular
Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development plural

Morphology

secretary + of + housing + and + urban + development

The title is fully compositional: 'Secretary' (a senior official) combined with the portfolio 'Housing and Urban Development' names the official responsible for that policy area. The structure 'Secretary of [Department]' is a common, cross-linguistic government-title pattern, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development uses simple words to show the job. secretary here means a senior official who runs an office, and housing and urban development point to homes and city planning, so the title means 'the head of the government department that looks after housing and city growth'.