secretary of transportation

1. 1.

   the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Transportation

   “Johnson appointed Alan S. Boyd as the first Transportation Secretary”

   SynonymsTransportation Secretary

   Broadersecretary
2. 2.

   the position of the head of the Department of Transportation

   “the post of Transportation Secretary was created in 1966”

   SynonymsTransportation Secretary

   Broadersecretaryship

   Part ofUnited States Cabinet

Questions about secretary of transportation

What does secretary of transportation mean?

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

What is another word for secretary of transportation?

Close synonyms include Transportation Secretary, Transportation 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 transportation a common word?

secretary of transportation 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.