noun
Meaning 1
The office or department of a government secretary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
secretariat
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˌsɛk.ɹəˈtɛə.ɹɪ.ət/
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General-American: /ˌsɛk.ɹəˈtɛɚ.i.ət/
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noun
Meaning 2
A kind of dicastery within the Roman Curia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, Roman-Catholicism
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noun
Meaning 3
A subdivision within an organisation or a company that deals with office management and/or administrative tasks such as handling correspondence and telephone calls, scheduling appointments, administering invoices, etc., often attached to specific executives or specific departments
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: chiefly non-native speakers' English
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noun
Meaning 4
thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1973
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: thoroughbred
noun
Meaning 5
an administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties; especially for international organizations
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: secretariate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: administrative unit, administrative body
Narrower terms: Pan American Union, United Nations Secretariat
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French secrétariat.
Across languages
Translations
37 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 秘書處 /秘书处 (mìshūchù) — the office or department of a government secretary
- Chinese Mandarin: 書記處 /书记处 (shūjìchù) — the office or department of a government secretary
- Danish: sekretariat — the office or department of a government secretary
- Dutch: ministerie — the office or department of a government secretary
- Dutch: kabinet — the office or department of a government secretary
- French: secrétariat — the office or department of a government secretary
- Georgian: სამდივნო (samdivno) — the office or department of a government secretary
- German: Sekretariat — the office or department of a government secretary
- Hebrew: מזכירות (mazkirut) — the office or department of a government secretary
- Hindi: सचिवालय (sacivālay) — the office or department of a government secretary
- Hungarian: titkárság — the office or department of a government secretary
- Ido: sekretariato — the office or department of a government secretary
- Indonesian: sekretariat — the office or department of a government secretary
- Irish: ardrúnaíocht — the office or department of a government secretary
- Irish: rúnaíocht — the office or department of a government secretary
- Irish: rúnaireacht — the office or department of a government secretary
- Italian: segretariato — the office or department of a government secretary
- Japanese: 事務局 (jimukyoku) — the office or department of a government secretary
- Japanese: 官房 (kanbō) — the office or department of a government secretary
- Kazakh: хатшылық (xatşylyq) — the office or department of a government secretary
- Malay: sekretariat — the office or department of a government secretary
- Persian: دبیرخانه (dabirxâne) — the office or department of a government secretary
- Polish: sekretariat — the office or department of a government secretary
- Portuguese: secretaria — the office or department of a government secretary
- Romanian: secretariat — the office or department of a government secretary
- Russian: секретариа́т (sekretariát) — the office or department of a government secretary
- Spanish: secretaría — the office or department of a government secretary
- Swahili: ukatibu — the office or department of a government secretary
- Swahili: sekretarieti — the office or department of a government secretary
- Swedish: sekretariat — the office or department of a government secretary
- Tagalog: kalihiman — the office or department of a government secretary
- Telugu: సచివాలయము (sacivālayamu) — the office or department of a government secretary
- Turkish: sekretarya — the office or department of a government secretary
- Vietnamese: văn phòng tổng thư ký — the office or department of a government secretary
- Vietnamese: phòng bí thư — the office or department of a government secretary
- Vietnamese: ban bí thư — the office or department of a government secretary
- Vietnamese: quốc vụ viện — a kind of dicastery within the Roman Curia
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