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Under Secretary

Under Secretary is the alternative spelling of undersecretary.

Meaning of undersecretary

Noun

undersecretary (plural undersecretaries)

  1. An administrator immediately subordinate to a head of a government department or to a member of a cabinet
  2. An assistant or deputy secretary of a government department

Forms of Under Secretary

pluralUnder Secretaries

Questions about Under Secretary

What is Under Secretary the alternative spelling of?
Under Secretary is the alternative spelling of undersecretary.

Words near Under Secretary in the dictionary

  1. under par
  2. under protest
  3. under sail
  4. under seal
  5. Under Secretaries
  6. Under Secretary
  7. under someone's nose
  8. under someone's roof
  9. under square
  10. under the auspices of
  11. under the bootheel of

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Under Secretary (page history and authors); undersecretary (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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