secretariat
noun
the officials or office entrusted with administrative duties, maintaining records, and overseeing or performing secretarial duties, especially for an international organization.
secretariats
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pluralof secretariat.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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To do just that, the newly dubbed "superminister" insisted on broad powers before accepting the daunting task, including control over the agriculture, production and trade secretariats, which have previously acted independently.
From Reuters ● Aug. 5, 2022
It had been unclear whether Brazil’s health ministry could impose a demand that children obtain a prescription for vaccinations; most Brazilian states’ health secretariats openly said they would defy such an order.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2022
Meantime, stocks of sedatives and other medications used in intensive care ran out in three states, according to a late-June report from Brazil’s council of state health secretariats.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 8, 2020
We have commissions, tribunals and secretariats to fight racism.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 3, 2016
The old Colonel's cerebral caloric burns with a feeble flicker, like that of Madras secretariats, and never consumes a subject.
From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
