secretary of the navy

1. 1.

   head of a former executive department; combined with the War Secretary to form the Defense Secretary in 1947

   SynonymsNavy Secretary

   Broadersecretaryship

Questions about secretary of the navy

What does secretary of the navy mean?

secretary of the navy means "head of a former executive department; combined with the War Secretary to form the Defense Secretary in 1947".

What is another word for secretary of the navy?

Close synonyms include Navy 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 navy a common word?

secretary of the navy 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.