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First Secretary

British  

noun

  1. the chief minister of the National Assembly for Wales

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The Foreign Ministry said in a statement it had summoned U.S. envoy Lynne Tracy and told her that embassy First Secretary Jeffrey Sillin and Second Secretary David Bernstein must leave Russia within seven days.

From Reuters Sep. 14, 2023

The America First Secretary of State Coalition is chaired by Jim Marchant, the GOP secretary of state candidate in Nevada.

From Washington Post Oct. 31, 2022

In 1964, Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev was toppled from power; he was succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and by Alexei Kosygin as Premier.

From Washington Times Oct. 14, 2020

As foreign secretary, Raab is formally the First Secretary of State, which gives him a certain superiority over other cabinet members, and therefore a natural pick for a successor in case of an emergency.

From Fox News Apr. 7, 2020

The First Secretary of the Embassy, from his occasional excursions into the field of American humour, had formed a special notion of that class of mechanic as the embodiment of fraudulent laziness and incompetency.

From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Conrad, Joseph

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