interior secretary

1. 1.

   the person who holds the secretaryship of the Interior Department

   “President Taylor appointed Thomas Ewing as the first Secretary of the Interior”

   SynonymsSecretary of the Interior

   Broadersecretary
2. 2.

   the position of the head of the Department of the Interior

   “the position of Interior Secretary was created in 1849”

   SynonymsSecretary of the Interior

   Broadersecretaryship

   Part ofUnited States Cabinet

Questions about interior secretary

What does interior secretary mean?

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

What is another word for interior secretary?

Close synonyms include Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of the Interior. 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 interior secretary a common word?

interior 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.