navy secretary

1. 1.

   head of a former executive department; combined with the War Secretary to form the Defense Secretary in 1947

   SynonymsSecretary of the Navy

   Broadersecretaryship

Questions about navy secretary

What does navy secretary mean?

navy secretary means "head of a former executive department; combined with the War Secretary to form the Defense Secretary in 1947".

What is another word for navy secretary?

Close synonyms include Secretary of the Navy. 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 navy secretary a common word?

navy 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.