undersecretary

/ ˌʌndəˈsɛkrətrɪ /

noun

in Britain
1. any of various senior civil servants in certain government departments
2. short for undersecretary of state: any of various high officials subordinate only to the minister in charge of a department
(in the US) a high government official subordinate only to the secretary in charge of a department

He thought he would earn some points with her considering her opposition to him taking the job as undersecretary.

“My worry is not over the next six months,” said Dov Zakheim, former undersecretary of Defense in the Bush administration.

Their solution, Landler wrote: nominate former undersecretary of defense Michele Flournoy for the job.

Dov Zakheim 2003: Undersecretary of Defense as comptroller for the Pentagon.

From 2001 to 2009, Ambassador Dobriansky served as undersecretary of state for democracy and global affairs.

Then, without a sign of emotion or recognition he went back to staring at the Undersecretary with an intensity almost violent.

Was Undersecretary for the Colonies in a late Administration.

Involuntarily she glanced at the Undersecretary, and her eyes spoke so plainly that he could not avoid taking a decisive step.

I sent his carefully written papers to an undersecretary of the World Congress and forgot the matter.

The Undersecretary made an answer to one of Simon's remarks.

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