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social secretary

American  

noun

  1. a personal secretary employed to make social appointments and handle personal correspondence.


social secretary British  

noun

  1. a member of an organization who arranges its social events

  2. a personal secretary who deals with private correspondence, etc

"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

Etymology

Origin of social secretary

First recorded in 1900–05

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After photos hit the wires showing construction equipment at the White House, tearing into the East Wing, critics lamented the lost quarters of the social secretary and the calligraphy office.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 23, 2025

In April 2022, the Health and Care Act 2022 gave the UK health and social secretary the power to introduce a licensing regime for non-surgical cosmetic procedures in England.

From BBC Mar. 23, 2025

The decor of shades of green, pink, blue and orange was chosen to evoke the feeling of spring, the season now in Australia, said White House social secretary Carlos Elizondo.

From Washington Times Oct. 24, 2023

And helping make it all happen is White House social secretary Carlos Elizondo.

From Seattle Times Dec. 22, 2022

"But I did find," Andy said, flipping through pages of his own scrawl, "a society matron and her social secretary, a whole flock of office workers—business, not government—and new parents and newly engaged girls and...."

From The Plague by Keller, Teddy

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