secretary of agriculture

1. 1.

   the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Agriculture

   “the first Secretary of Agriculture was Norman J. Colman, who was appointed by Cleveland”

   SynonymsAgriculture Secretary

   Broadersecretary
2. 2.

   the position of the head of the Department of Agriculture

   “the post of Secretary of Agriculture was established in 1889”

   SynonymsAgriculture Secretary

   Broadersecretaryship

   Part ofUnited States Cabinet

Questions about secretary of agriculture

What does secretary of agriculture mean?

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

What is another word for secretary of agriculture?

Close synonyms include Agriculture Secretary, Agriculture Secretary. 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 secretary of agriculture a common word?

secretary of agriculture 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.