Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An official directly subordinate to a member of a cabinet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A secretary subordinate to the principal secretary: as, an under-secretary for Ireland.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
administrator immediately subordinate to a head of agovernment department or to a member of acabinet
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a secretary immediately subordinate to the head of a department of government
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Examples
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The fact that you would want to appoint Sarah Palin undersecretary for Robot Affairs shows just how unserious you are about Human/Robot relations, Peter K.
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And since intelligence is playing a critical role in our ability to achieve military victory this new law creates a new high-level position within the Department of Defense called the undersecretary for intelligence.
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He is now a kind of undersecretary in the office of our secret diplomacy, and a member of the Legion of Honour.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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He is now a kind of undersecretary in the office of our secret diplomacy, and a member of the Legion of Honour.
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This office falls under a senior position known as the undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs, which, according to its description, leads America’s public diplomacy outreach, which includes communications with international audiences, cultural programming, academic grants, educational exchanges, international visitor programs, and U.S. Government efforts to confront ideological support for terrorism.
The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010
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In the end, he didn’t object to the legislation creating Rumsfeld’s one dog to kick, otherwise known as the undersecretary of defense for intelligence.
State of War James Risen 2006
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He is now a kind of undersecretary in the office of our secret diplomacy, and a member of the Legion of Honour.
Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 4 Lewis Goldsmith 1804
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He is now a kind of undersecretary in the office of our secret diplomacy, and a member of the Legion of Honour.
Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete Lewis Goldsmith 1804
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The undersecretary provided Libby with interim oral reports in late May and early June, and advised Libby that Wilson was the former ambassador who took the trip.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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Harold Brown, a brilliant secretary of defense, and his equally gifted undersecretary Bill Perry—both engineers by training—recognized the way that technology could be married to the needs of the defense establishment and helped our administration initiate the transition from electromechanical to digitized weapons systems.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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