Secretary of Transportation
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- noun
- Formal
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Secretario de Transporte
- The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ordered the Secretary of Transportation of the United States to withhold federal highway funds for areas of Pennsylvania that the consent decree covered.
- Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta
Sean Duffy, the head of the FAA, the secretary of transportation, is doing a lot of work over there.
- Sean Duffy, the head of the FAA, the secretary of transportation, is doing a lot of work over there.
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Requires the Secretary of Transportation to withhold 10% of a state's apportionment of certain federal-aid highway funds in any fiscal year after FY2009 if such state does not require verifiable evidence of lawful presence in the United States or its territories from each applicant for a driver's license or personal identification card issued by the state.
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In Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe (172), an advocacy group successfully challenged the U.S. Secretary of Transportation's decision to contribute funds to Tennessee's construction of a portion of Interstate.
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The Office of Public Private Partnerships, under the Secretary of Transportation, will evaluate the three remaining proposals.
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U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood likes his job, and he likes Atlanta.
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"With so many different types of devices available, we recognize that this is an issue of consumer interest," Ray LaHood, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, said in a release.
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Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta describes CAPPS II as "the foundation on which all other far more public security measures really depend."
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Perhaps part of the answer could be some new rules from the Secretary of Transportation, much like the perimeter rules that exist at New York LaGuardia (LGA) and Washington Reagan (DCA) airports.
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Meanwhile, Rockwell Automation of Greenville, S.C., demonstrated a 1,600-hp HTS machine for the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Norman Mineta.
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He seasoned his nominations with familiar and widely admired Washington figures, including Colin Powell as Secretary of State, Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense, and Democrat Norman Mineta as Secretary of Transportation.
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This morning, the Secretary of Transportation outlined new safety regulations for airlines.
Synonyms
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A person who leads the United States government department that plans and runs the country's transport
Surface Forms
Morphology
secretary + of + transportation
The phrase is transparently compositional: 'secretary' (a senior official) combined with 'of' and 'transportation' (movement of people/goods) straightforwardly denotes the official in charge of transportation. This title pattern is common across languages and involves no idiomatic shift, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Secretary of Transportation comes from two simple ideas: a secretary was originally a trusted helper who kept important papers, and transportation means moving people and goods. So the title names the trusted government official who leads and manages the country's transport and travel, the 'head of the Department of Transportation'.