defense secretary

Questions about defense secretary

What does defense secretary mean?

defense secretary means "the person who holds the secretaryship of the Defense Department". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for defense secretary?

Close synonyms include Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Defense. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is defense secretary a common word?

defense 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.