home secretary

1. 1.

   the British cabinet minister who is head of the Home Office

   SynonymsSecretary of State for the Home Department

   Broadercabinet minister

   Part ofBritish Cabinet

Questions about home secretary

What does home secretary mean?

home secretary means "the British cabinet minister who is head of the Home Office".

What is another word for home secretary?

Close synonyms include Secretary of State for the Home Department. 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 home secretary a common word?

home 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.