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private secretary
noun
- a person who attends to the individual or confidential correspondence, files, etc., of a business executive, official, or the like.
private secretary
noun
- a secretary entrusted with the personal and confidential matters of a business executive
- a civil servant who acts as aide to a minister or senior government official Compare parliamentary private secretary
Word History and Origins
Origin of private secretary1
Example Sentences
They did not regularly speak in the morning — it was their private secretaries who coordinated their schedules.
He now worked for the Presidential General Staff, and his brother Alberto was the private secretary to President Mateos.
William's private secretary noted, "As everyone probably knows, however, the duke and duchess are just a little competitive."
At 10 a.m. her private secretary will arrive to discuss correspondence and state papers.
Probably his Private Secretary, considering you a new man, will have failed to furnish the necessary information.
And here let me point out for your future guidance the importance of having a private secretary thoroughly up to his work.
But the particular Private Secretary of your answerer being not up to his work you get snubbed.
Then I'll take you to Sacramento with me next year—I'm a senator this term—as my private secretary, and you'll learn a lot.
You are a kind of private secretary to the whole family, then; but you work at the law at the same time?
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