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TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Transportation Secretary mean? 

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY (noun)
  The noun TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY has 2 senses:

1. the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Transportationplay

2. the position of the head of the Department of Transportationplay

  Familiarity information: TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Transportation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Secretary of Transportation; Transportation Secretary

Context example:

Johnson appointed Alan S. Boyd as the first Transportation Secretary

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

secretary (a person who is head of an administrative department of government)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The position of the head of the Department of Transportation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Secretary of Transportation; Transportation Secretary

Context example:

the post of Transportation Secretary was created in 1966

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

secretaryship (the position of secretary)

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

United States Cabinet; US Cabinet (a board to advise the President; members are the secretaries of executive departments; the United States constitution does not provide for the cabinet)


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