secretaryship
- noun
- /ˈsɛkrəˌtɛrɪˌʃɪp/
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secretaría
- The latter, immediately after the elections, resigned from the Punjab League and joined the Unionist Party with the hope of obtaining a parliamentary secretaryship in the Punjab Assembly, which he got.
Examples
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The latter, immediately after the elections, resigned from the Punjab League and joined the Unionist Party with the hope of obtaining a parliamentary secretaryship in the Punjab Assembly, which he got.
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Over dinner, some wine, and a discussion of the trials of corresponding secretaryship, Oz confided that some years earlier, when he had had my job, he had invented a classmate.
Fiction book (1991) -
Schoenbaum's biography is much more thorough and systematic on Rusk's years preceding his secretaryship of state, but, like this memoir, suffers from a failure to deal with the problems and needs of a contemporary diplomatic establishment.
Academic text (1991) -
Bailey resigned that afternoon from the secretaryship of the Academy.
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When White chose to pursue the secretaryship, one of his first calls was to his old boss, Colin Powell.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Secretaryship comes from secretary, which comes from the root secret meaning 'private' or 'hidden', because a secretary originally looked after private papers and information. The ending -ship means 'state or office', as in leadership and friendship, so secretaryship is the 'office or time of being a secretary'.
