war secretary

1. 1.

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

   SynonymsSecretary of War

   Broadersecretaryship

Questions about war secretary

What does war secretary mean?

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

What is another word for war secretary?

Close synonyms include Secretary of War. 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 war secretary a common word?

war secretary 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.