secretaryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• secretarie (obsolete)

語源

From Medieval Latin secrētārius (“one entrusted with secrets”), from Latin secrētus (“private, secret”), past participle of secernere (“to separate, set apart”), from se- (“apart”) + cernere (“to separate”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈsɛk.ɹə.tə.ɹi/, /ˈsɛk.ɹə.tɹi/
• (General American) enPR: sĕk'rətĕrē, IPA: /ˈsɛk.(ɹ)əˌtɛɹ.i/, [ˈsɛk.(ɹ)əˌtʰɛɹ.i]

名詞

secretary (plural secretaries)

1. A person who keeps records, takes notes and handles general clerical work.

   I have a personal secretary to help me organize my clients.

   The secretary at the school is in charge of communication between parents, students, and staff.

   • 1980 February 25, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “Open Government”, in Yes Minister, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne):

     None of us can type, Minister. Mrs. McKay types (laugh track). She's the secretary (laugh track).

2. (often capitalized) The head of a department of government.
   • 1980 February 25, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “Open Government”, in Yes Minister, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne):

     Well briefly, sir, I am the Permanent Under Secretary of State, known as the Permanent Secretary.

3. A managerial or leading position in certain non-profit organizations, such as political parties, trade unions, international organizations.

   Ban Ki-Moon was a secretary general of the United Nations.

4. (US) A type of desk, secretary desk; a secretaire.
5. A secretary bird, a bird of the species Sagittarius serpentarius.
6. (original sense, now obsolete) Someone entrusted with a secret; a confidant.
7. (obsolete) Someone employed as a scribe for personal correspondence.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Letters Restored”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 220:

     "Do not give yourself any uneasiness about one so utterly unworthy of a thought! Sir George Kingston is without one grain of either honour or real feeling! The fact is, I have, for some months past, been his secretary, and wrote for him the letters which were sent you!"

派生語

関連する語

• secret
• secretion
• secretive
• secretory
• secretariat

派生した語

• → Punjabi: ਸਕੱਤਰ (sakattar)

動詞

secretary (third-person singular simple present secretaries, present participle secretarying, simple past and past participle secretaried)

1. (transitive) To serve as a secretary of.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:secretary.

Further reading

• “secretary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “secretary”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “secretary”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.