secretarial
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- adjective
- /ˌsɛkrəˈtɛriəl/
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secretarial
- His responsibilities included various secretarial duties like managing schedules and preparing reports.
- secretarial assistance
- secretarial work
- secretarial staff
And so after Asia, then I did a queen secretarial course because my mother was like, right, you know, you need to get some qualifications so you can start working.
- And so after Asia, then I did a queen secretarial course because my mother was like, right, you know, you need to get some qualifications so you can start working.
Examples
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The job is less burdensome if the university provides secretarial assistance and release time.
Academic text (2004) -
Doris has had a varied career working in secretarial, banking, accounting, and legal positions.
Academic text (1998) -
I thought it was a secretarial post.
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This is your ticket out of the secretarial pool.
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And then I could go to a secretarial college.
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I put her through this secretarial course.
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I called you earlier about a secretarial job.
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You do secretarial work, do you?
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Lisa, like the majority of the other women there, came to upgrade her secretarial skills.
Fiction book (1993) -
They sent me to secretarial school and then I applied for a job at Consolidated.
Synonyms
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3.7
Relating to office work such as typing, filing or answering phones
Compounds
A person who does office tasks like filing and answering phones for managers
How Clerical
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Morphology
Etymology
Secretarial comes from secretary, which comes from the old word secretus meaning 'hidden' or 'separate', and is the same root as the common word secret. A helpful way to remember this is that a secretary was once a person trusted with private papers and messages, so secretarial work is about handling and organising important or private office tasks.