secretary of state for the home department

1. 1.

   the British cabinet minister who is head of the Home Office

   SynonymsHome Secretary

   Broadercabinet minister

   Part ofBritish Cabinet

Questions about secretary of state for the home department

What does secretary of state for the home department mean?

secretary of state for the home department means "the British cabinet minister who is head of the Home Office".

What is another word for secretary of state for the home department?

Close synonyms include Home 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 state for the home department a common word?

secretary of state for the home department 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.