English Secretary Desk
1A person employed by an individual or in an office to assist with correspondence, make appointments, and carry out administrative tasks:
‘she was secretary to David Wilby MP’
‘Since it was written in shorthand, he had to ask his secretary to interpret it.’
‘I entered the office, dumping the counseling folder on the secretary's desk.’
‘He pushed the door open and walked up to the secretary's desk.’
‘If necessary, counsel may contact my secretary to arrange an appointment to speak to the issue of costs on this motion.’
‘He is even considerate enough to take time from his day to answer fan mail personally rather than getting a secretary to do it for him.’
‘She waited for the secretary to pick up and transfer her to Sarah's office, where she was on her break.’
‘A former England player who roomed with him now has to call Hoddle's secretary to get an appointment to speak to him.’
‘She started in a law firm as the boss's secretary typing his letters and papers.’
‘There is a story doing the rounds about a city lawyer who asked an office secretary to pay £4 towards his dry cleaning bill.’
‘Englehardt explained that in fact plenty of people had seen it, and he sent his secretary to fetch some.’
‘After leaving the firm, I found out that people from my secretary to my CEO knew I was gay.’
‘She was then working as a secretary to Tambimuttu in that chaotic Poetry London office in Manchester Square.’
‘It didn't matter that Kyle had a newborn baby, or that Ryan drank too much, or that Tom was carrying on a secret affair with a secretary in the office.’
‘She is reportedly the lowest paid secretary in the department.’
‘There is no office secretary to answer calls or take messages, no student assistants to run errands.’
‘With that, he turned and walked out of his office, calling for his secretary to get her anything she needed, a drink or anything.’
‘One guy a few years back asked me whether he should call back and make an appointment with my secretary to talk to me.’
‘Additional staff is needed to run rural branch surgeries, which restricts partners' ability to employ secretaries and administrators.’
‘Already a bunch of freshmen had lined up at the secretary's desk.’
‘Despite being in his office, the editor, Martin Newland, requested his secretary to say he was ‘unavailable for comment’.’
assistant, personal assistant, pa, administrator, clerk, clerical assistant, amanuensis, girl friday, man friday
typist, shorthand typist, copyist, keyboarder, stenographer
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Source: en.oxforddictionaries.com
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