chief secretary

1. 1.

   a member of the British Cabinet

   Broadercabinet minister

   Part ofBritish Cabinet

Questions about chief secretary

What does chief secretary mean?

chief secretary means "a member of the British Cabinet".

Is chief secretary a common word?

chief secretary is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.