secretarial
noting, of, or pertaining to a secretary or a secretary's skills and work: a secretarial school.
Origin of secretarial
1Other words from secretarial
- non·sec·re·tar·i·al, adjective
- sub·sec·re·tar·i·al, adjective
- un·sec·re·tar·i·al, adjective
Words Nearby secretarial
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How to use secretarial in a sentence
My mother, after two years of college, got married and held secretarial and retail jobs.
In high school, O’Leary did secretarial work at the Pentagon, where she developed an affinity for clerical record books and other bureaucratic items.
D.C. is a city of grand monuments and federal buildings. These photos capture the often unseen poetic details. | Kelsey Ables | July 30, 2021 | Washington PostA prospective boss told young Cokie Roberts that women like her loved their dead-end secretarial jobs.
Four women who broke barriers to become the founding mothers of NPR | Connie Schultz | April 16, 2021 | Washington PostIn March 1944, shortly before Joye Hummel graduated from the Katharine Gibbs secretarial school in Manhattan, she was invited to meet with one of her instructors, a charismatic psychologist who had been impressed by her essays on a take-home test.
Joye Hummel, first woman hired to write Wonder Woman comics, dies at 97 | Harrison Smith | April 8, 2021 | Washington PostI had been at secretarial college with those two girls [Valerie and her sister Mary], so I knew them very well.
Kate Middleton’s Code-Breaking Granny: Duchess Uncovers Wartime Secrets | Tim Teeman | June 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
After all, she was back in the same tired circle: the icy, gray streets of Detroit, back and forth to work at a secretarial job.
The Strange and Mysterious Death of Mrs. Jerry Lee Lewis | Richard Ben Cramer | January 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe British broadsheets called it “the most coveted secretarial job in the world.”
The Beatles’ Secretary, Good Ol’ Freda, Breaks Silence in Exclusive SXSW Interview | Marlow Stern | March 14, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen I was in high school, I had a secretarial job at a fuel company in a small town in New Hampshire.
Black Women Still Battle Mad Men in Corporate America | Rebecca Carroll | March 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTDraper told Lois that she was not made for a secretarial job.
She had done some secretarial work for a charity of which the duchess was patroness.
Emily Fox-Seton | Frances Hodgson BurnettThey'll probably tell you to take the next rocket back and report to the secretarial pool, I'm afraid.
Operation: Outer Space | William Fitzgerald JenkinsHe had discovered her among communist councils in Berlin and naïvely attached her as a part of Dorn's secretarial retinue.
Erik Dorn | Ben HechtMiss Conder's secretarial duties apparently left her wide margins of leisure which were always at the disposal of Miss Black.
Notwithstanding | Mary CholmondeleyPresently I seated myself at the table and recommenced my secretarial duties, while he went forth.
The Minister of Evil | William Le Queux
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