education secretary

1. 1.

   the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Education

   “Carter appointed Shirley Hufstedler as the first Secretary of Education”

   SynonymsSecretary of Education

   Broadersecretary
2. 2.

   the position of the head of the Education Department

   “the post of Education Secretary was created in 1979”

   SynonymsSecretary of Education

   Broadersecretaryship

   Part ofUnited States Cabinet

Questions about education secretary

What does education secretary mean?

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

What is another word for education secretary?

Close synonyms include Secretary of Education, Secretary of Education. 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 education secretary a common word?

education 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.