secretariate

Questions about secretariate

What does secretariate mean?

secretariate means "an administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties; especially for international organizations".

How many syllables are in secretariate?

secretariate has 5 syllables and divides as se-cre-ta-ri-ate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for secretariate?

Close synonyms include secretariat. 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 secretariate a common word?

secretariate 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.