sec'tary
See also: sectary
English edit
Noun edit
sec'tary (plural sec'taries)
- (contraction) secretary
- 1900, Margaret Blake Robinson, Souls in Pawn: A Story of New York Life, page 66:
- I'm only Lizzie Kelly, member, while some o' yez are treasurers, an' sec'tarys, an' grand Lord Elephants...
- 1991, J.S Borthwick, The Student Body: The Winter Carnival At This Maine College Had It All, page 7:
- Tha's number one sec'tary. Executive sec'tary. Sec'tary of interior, treasury, sec'tary of war.
- 2010, Sara Donati, Into the Wilderness, page 278:
- “The sec'tary,” she whispered. And then, with a hug and a look which admonished and encouraged all at once, she slipped away, her white nightdress trailing behind her in a long comma.