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foreign secretary

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noun

Chiefly British.
  1. foreign minister.


Etymology

Origin of foreign secretary

First recorded in 1650–60


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"Over three million people shipped, really with the British state's complicity, over a long period of time, couple of centuries actually, hundreds of thousands of them didn't make it and died," the foreign secretary said.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Britain’s new foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, has taken the U.K.’s governor seat at the World Bank.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

To date, Mexico has received partial or no responses to complaints sent to the eight states where the 17 deaths of Mexican citizens occurred, Roberto Velasco, Mexican’s foreign secretary, said last week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Miatta Fahnbulleh is the energy security and net zero secretary, after replacing Ed Miliband who has become foreign secretary.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

Back in his private room, Stalin told his foreign secretary, “We’ll have to have a talk with Kurchatov today about speeding up our work.”

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin

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