secretarial
[sek-ri-tair-ee-uh l]
- noting, of, or pertaining to a secretary or a secretary's skills and work: a secretarial school.
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Origin of secretarial
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Contemporary Examples
I had been at secretarial college with those two girls [Valerie and her sister Mary], so I knew them very well.
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.
When I was in high school, I had a secretarial job at a fuel company in a small town in New Hampshire.
Draper told Lois that she was not made for a secretarial job.
Historical Examples
If you do the part, I would like to have a talk with you about the secretarial duties.
The Letters of Charles DickensCharles Dickens
She could not sit all morning simply talking to him; that might be social but not secretarial.
Good ReferencesE. J. Rath
Neither Pryce nor Mast had cared to undertake the secretarial work.
The Exiles of FalooBarry Pain
The clerical force were thrilled and enraptured with their secretarial occupation!
SelinaGeorge Madden Martin
Then she drew her secretarial manner like a veil over her face.
The Second FiddlePhyllis Bottome
Word Origin and History for secretarial
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