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Definition: Undersecretary |
UndersecretaryNoun1. A secretary immediately subordinate to the head of a department of government. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | John L. Levitow Jr., son of the late Medal of Honor recipient John L. Levitow, received the American flag on behalf of a grateful nation from Carol DiBattiste, undersecretary of the Air Force. Levitow died Nov. 8 at his home in Connecticut after a lengthy. |
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Economic History | Bahrain | Government oversight of the tourism industry currently rests with the Assistant Undersecretary for Tourism within the Ministry of Information. (references) |
Mexico | The INE (National Institute of Ecology) has become only a research and information agency leaving the responsibilities of issuing permits and licenses to the Undersecretary for Environmental Protection Administration. (references) | |
Bahrain | The Government of Bahrain tourism budget for the year 2000-2001 is USD 7.7 million in comparison to USD 1.33 in 1999. According to Dr. Kadhem Rajab, Undersecretary Tourism Affairs, 75 percent of the budget is allocated to a program to restore historic sites, as well as to develop service infrastructure, information centers and lecture rooms in historic sites, souvenir shops, restrooms and other infrastructure services. (references) | |
Human Rights | Mexico | At year's end, Undersecretary Mariclaire Acosta and the Secretariat of Foreign Relations were studying a variety of legal mechanisms that would allow the Government and Gallardo's defense team to reach agreement on a means to comply with a 1996 IAHCR recommendation calling for Gallardo's release. (references) |
Mexico | In September the Undersecretary for Legal Issues for the state of Guerrero announced to the press that it was starting compensation procedures for 16 indigenous women who were sterilized by state health officials in 1998. In addition, the state health secretariat launched administrative procedures to sanction the personnel responsible. (references) | |
Minorities | Mexico | On August 22, the state governor and the Secretariat of Government's Undersecretary for Religious Affairs convened a meeting with evangelical representatives and town leaders and negotiated an agreement between the parties. (references) |
Political Economy | Qatar | Some women have been appointed to leading Government positions at the Undersecretary and Professor levels in the Ministry of Education and the state-owned Qatar University. (references) |
Mexico | On September 25, the President announced the creation of an Undersecretariat for Human Rights and Democracy within the Secretariat of Foreign Relations and appointed Mariclaire Acosta as the new Undersecretary. (references) | |
Mexico | Undersecretary Acosta increased cooperation with the U.N and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), and increased public participation in the Government's development of human rights initiatives. (references) | |
Political Rights | United Arab Emirates | Other women in senior government positions include an undersecretary in the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and an assistant undersecretary for planning and evaluation in the Ministry of Education. (references) |
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| "Undersecretary" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "Undersecretary" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 81.82% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 18.18% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "undersecretary": permanent undersecretary. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
defense undersecretary | 3 |
defense doug feith policy undersecretary | 3 |
army undersecretary | 3 |
defense intelligence undersecretary | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "undersecretary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zëvendësministër (deputy minister), zëvendës sekretari kryesor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | وكيل الوزارة, سكرتير ثان. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | заместник-министър, помощник-секретар, подсекретар. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zástupce ministra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | staatssecretaris (parliamentary undersecretary of state), junior minister (parliamentary undersecretary of state). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | معاون وزارتخانه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | valtiosihteeri (undersecretary of state). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sous-secrétaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Unterstaatsskretär. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υπογραμματέασ, υφηπουργόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תת מזכיר. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sottosegretario (parliamentary secretary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 事務次官 (permanent vice-president, vice-minister), 次官 (vice-minister). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じか" (the space between letters or characters, time, vice-minister), じむじか" (permanent vice-president, vice-minister). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ersecretaryunday subsecretário. (various references) subsecretar de stat (under secretary), subsecretar, ministru adjunct. (various references) заместитель министра. (various references) podsekretar. (various references) subsecretario (assistant secretary). (various references) avdelningschef (floor walker, floor-walker, head of a department). (various references) müsteşar (permanent secretary), bakan müşaviri. (various references) заступник генерального секретаря оон, заступник міністра. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "undersecretary" (pronounced u'nderse"krute'rē) |
| 9 | -s e" k r u t e' r ē | secretary. |
| 5 | -u t e' r ē | budgetary, cemetery, cometary, depositary, dietary, dignitary, hereditary, interplanetary, military, monetary, nonmilitary, paramilitary, pituitary, planetary, proprietary, salutary, sanitary, solitary, tributary, unitary, unsanitary. |
| 4 | -t e' r ē | commentary, dysentery, fragmentary, involuntary, momentary, monastery, sedentary. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, bicentenary, Blackberry, blueberry, capillary, cardiopulmonary, Cassowary, cautionary, centenary, commissary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, coronary, counterrevolutionary, cranberry, culinary, customary, deflationary, Dewberry, dictionary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, diversionary, Dogberry, dromedary, emissary, epistolary, estuary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, fiduciary, formulary, functionary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, honorary, Huckleberry, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, legendary, library, literary, luminary, mercenary, missionary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, noninflationary, obituary, ordinary, pecuniary, preliminary, primary, probationary, pulmonary, quaternary, raspberry, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, Rosemary, sanctuary, savagery, secondary, semilegendary, seminary, stationary, stationery, statuary, strawberry, subsidiary, temporary, Tilbury, topiary, unnecessary, urinary, veterinary, visionary, vocabulary. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-n-r-r-r-s-t-u-y" | |
-3 letters: resurrected, underreacts. | |
-4 letters: desecrater, rearrested, reeducates, transducer, underrates, underreact, understeer. | |
-5 letters: antecedes, careeners, careerers, creatures, curtseyed, decanters, decenters, decentres, decurrent, denatures, desecrate, deterrers, easterner, encrusted, recanters, recreants, recreated, recreates, recurrent, reductase, reeducate, reenacted, renatured, renatures, renderers, resecured, resurrect, retarders, returnees, returners, sauntered, saunterer, secretary, sedentary, serenader, surrender, tenderers, traducers, transduce, treasured, treasurer, uncreated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 64 65 72 73 65 63 72 65 74 61 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -.. . .-. ... . -.-. .-. . - .- .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01110011 01100101 01100011 01110010 01100101 01110100 01100001 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n d e r s e c r e t a r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0064 0065 0072 0073 0065 0063 0072 0065 0074 0061 0072 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580707184857169847186678491 |
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