how to pronounce secretary

/ˈsɛkɹəˌtɛɹiː/

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secretary is pronounced in four syllables

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An example use of secretary in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… and uh he goes to a secretary and now he …”

meaning of secretary

A secretary is a person who is employed in an administrative or executive capacity.

secretary frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word secretary occurs in english on average 23.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics secretary can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that secretary can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;