secretary of the interior

1. 1.

   the position of the head of the Department of the Interior

   “the position of Interior Secretary was created in 1849”

   SynonymsInterior Secretary

   Broadersecretaryship

   Part ofUnited States Cabinet
2. 2.

   the person who holds the secretaryship of the Interior Department

   “President Taylor appointed Thomas Ewing as the first Secretary of the Interior”

   SynonymsInterior Secretary

   Broadersecretary

Questions about secretary of the interior

What does secretary of the interior mean?

secretary of the interior means "the position of the head of the Department of the Interior". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for secretary of the interior?

Close synonyms include Interior Secretary, Interior 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 the interior a common word?

secretary of the interior 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.