HOME SECRETARY

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• HOME SECRETARY (noun)
  The noun HOME SECRETARY has 1 sense:

1. the British cabinet minister who is head of the Home Office

  Familiarity information: HOME SECRETARY used as a noun is very rare.

• HOME SECRETARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The British cabinet minister who is head of the Home Office

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Home Secretary; Secretary of State for the Home Department

Hypernyms ("Home Secretary" is a kind of...):

cabinet minister (a person who is a member of the cabinet)

Holonyms ("Home Secretary" is a member of...):

British Cabinet (the senior ministers of the British government)

 Context examples 

There, the devoted postman on that beat delivered bushels of letters for me; and there, at intervals, I laboured through them, like a Home Secretary of State without the salary.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)