noun British.
the secretary of state for the Home Office.
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Origin of Home Secretary
First recorded in 1790–1800
Words nearby Home Secretary
home-schooler,
homeschooling,
home scrap,
home screen,
homescreetch,
Home Secretary,
homeshore,
homeshoring,
homesick,
home sign,
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How to use Home Secretary in a sentence
That officer fretting about his “stance,” we learn, is plagued by PTSD that cripples him both on the job and at home.
So, Islamized teaching sends girls back home for marriage and housework, and remains exclusively for boys.
Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.
The FBI raided his home in 2000 with an affidavit questioning his use of $200,000 from his white supremacist fundraising.
Scalise spoke briefly, adding little of substance, saying that the people back home know him best.
It was with a feeling of relief on both sides that the arrival of Mr. Haggard, of the Home Office, was announced.
In the entrance hall of the Savoy, where large and lonely porters were dozing, he learnt that she was at home.
He desired his secretary to go to the devil, but, thinking better of it, he recalled him as he reached the door.
I've never had time to write home about it, for I felt that it required a dissertation in itself to do it justice.
Now and then the boy who had bought Squinty, and who was taking him home, would look around at his pet in the slatted box.
British Dictionary definitions for Home Secretary
noun
British government short for Secretary of State for the Home Department; the head of the Home Office
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