secretary of war

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsWar Secretary

   Broadersecretaryship

Questions about secretary of war

What does secretary of war mean?

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

What is another word for secretary of war?

Close synonyms include War 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 war a common word?

secretary of war 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.