secretarial

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  1. Of or pertaining to a secretary or secretaries: as, secretarial work; a secretarial position. The career likeliest for Sterling … would have been … some secretarial, diplomatic, or other official training. Carlyle, Sterling, i. 5.

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  • Turned the knob again and reopened the door and stepped back into the brightness of the secretarial area, one pace. —  Without Fail by Lee Child
  • Most of it was a memorandum about future overtime requirements for his secretarial staff. —  Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child
  • Her father, back in Edmonton, had never understood her wanting to be a scientist, and had encouraged her to take all the typing she could so she'd be ready for a secretarial career. —  Analog SFF, November 2006
  • There was an entry door from the stairwell that led to a narrow passage that passed through a wooden gate into an open area used as a secretarial pen. —  Echo Burning by Lee Child
  • Ten years before, I had spent some time cruising along the northern coast of Borneo in the yacht of His Highness Sir Charles Brooke, Raja of Sarawak; but with that single exception yachting was for me an unknown phase of sea life The Liberty—or, as the secretarial staff, for reasons which will become apparent later, called her, the Liberty, Ha! —  An Adventure With A Genius
 

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