secretary of veterans affairs is a noun meaning "the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Veterans Affairs". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Veterans Affairs
“Bush appointed Edward J. Derwinski as the first Secretary of Veterans Affairs”
the position of the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs
“the post of Secretary of Veterans Affairs was created in 1989”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for secretary of veterans affairs come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.