secretary of defense

Questions about secretary of defense

What does secretary of defense mean?

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

What is another word for secretary of defense?

Close synonyms include Defense Secretary, Defense 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 defense a common word?

secretary of defense 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.