- a variation of under secretary.
undersecretary
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any of various senior civil servants in certain government departments
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short for undersecretary of state: any of various high officials subordinate only to the minister in charge of a department
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(in the US) a high government official subordinate only to the secretary in charge of a department
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Defense Department’s undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment, on Tuesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Mick Mulroy, a former assistant undersecretary of defence for the Middle East at the Pentagon, said any link between pausing Project Freedom and a possible peace deal remains murky.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
His replacement, Cao, became undersecretary in October 2025 and is a 25-year Navy veteran.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
A decade later we served together in the crucible of the global financial crisis, I as undersecretary of the Treasury for international affairs at the time, Kevin on the Fed Board.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
The vote was unanimous, although one member, navy undersecretary Ralph Bard, presently dissented from the third recommendation, resigned his post, and proposed to Stimson that the Japanese receive two or three days’ warning.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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