Secretary Of State Definition

noun
In the U.S., the head of the State Department and senior official of the Cabinet, who is the President's chief foreign-policy advisor.
Webster's New World
A state official having various administrative duties.
Webster's New World

Any of several senior government positions whose function varies from nation to nation.

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Secretary of State
Plural:
secretaries-of-state

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  • The duke of Dorset's reappointment to the lord-lieutenancy in 1751, with his son Lord George Sackville as secretary of state for Ireland, strengthened the primate's position and enabled him to triumph over the popular party on the constitutional question as to the right of the Irish House of Commons to dispose of surplus Irish revenue, which the government maintained was the property of the Crown.

  • It may not be used except when actually ordered in the sentence, and must be of a pattern approved by a secretary of state.

  • The 2nd earl was ambassador to Vienna and then to Paris; he was secretary of state for the southern.

  • He remained one of Elizabeth's most trusted Protestant counsellors, being appointed in 1572 chancellor of the order of the Garter and a secretary of state.

  • From 1851 to 1861 he was one of the editors and owners of the Albany Evening Journal, and during his father's term at the head of the State Department he was assistant secretary of state.

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