undersecretary
English
noun
Definitions
- An administrator immediately subordinate to a head of a government department or to a member of a cabinet
- An assistant or deputy secretary of a government department in the Philippines and some other countries.
Etymology
Prefix from English secretary.
Origin
English
secretary
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- nonsecretary English
- secretary English
- secretaryess English
- secretarylike English
- secretaryship English
- subsecretary English
- undersecretaryship English
- *krey- Proto-Indo-European
- စက္ကရီတေရီ Burmese
- seketeri Tok Pisin
- sekreteri Tok Pisin