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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An official directly subordinate to a member of a cabinet.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A secretary subordinate to the principal secretary: as, an under-secretary for Ireland.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An administrator immediately subordinate to a head of a government department or to a member of a cabinet

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a secretary immediately subordinate to the head of a department of government

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