personal secretary
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpersonalandsecretary
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personal
adjective
uk/ˈpɜː.sən.əl/us/ˈpɝː.sən.əl/
relating or belonging to a single or particular person rather than to a group or ...
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secretary
noun[C]
uk/ˈsek.rə.tər.i/us/ˈsek.rə.ter.i/
someone who works in an office, writing letters, making phone calls, and arranging meetings for a person or for ...
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(Definition ofpersonalandsecretaryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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They share a private secretary and apersonalsecretary.
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Nopersonalsecretaryposts have been appointed to report to principal grade officers.
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An assistant secretary was appointed later in the year, and apersonalsecretaryin 1987.
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Two part-time cleaners and apersonalsecretaryhave been made redundant.
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The remainder of the increase is represented by one research officer and one seniorpersonalsecretary.
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Yet a medical secretary onpersonalsecretarygrade gets £4,912 to £5,855.
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I want this in addition to my capacity to employ apersonalsecretary.
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She is expected to perform all the duties of apersonalsecretaryemployed in commerce or industry.
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He also had apersonalsecretarywith him whose expenses do not, of course, fall on public funds.
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To provide assistance to more senior civil servants, secretaries in the grade of seniorpersonalsecretaryare employed.
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It takes up part of the time of a grade 5 and apersonalsecretarywho both have other duties.
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Nothing was discussed with hispersonalsecretaryor entourage.
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Rajat is apersonalsecretaryto a wealthy businessman.
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She was her father'spersonalsecretary, coder, interpreter and advisor.
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The grades of these officials are—assistant secretary (1), principal (2), higher executive officer (5), executive officer (7), clerical officer (4) and seniorpersonalsecretary(1).
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I have no idea whether it will come into effect, but the chairman of the police authority may need apersonalsecretaryor an accountant.
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The present staff of the office comprises one higher executive officer, three executive officers, five clerical officers, one clerical assistant, onepersonalsecretaryand one typist.
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The unit is headed by a grade 5 and is at present made up of four grade 7s, a senior economic assistant and apersonalsecretary.
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Between 1938 and 1939, he was thepersonalsecretaryto rev.
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She was not only his piano instructor as a child but later became hispersonalsecretary.
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She started as a scheduling assistant, and in 1969 was appointed as hispersonalsecretary.
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He was accompanied by bodyguards and other loyal supporters including at least one of his sons and hispersonalsecretary.
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Barrows then went to a hydropathic sanitarium for treatment and became thepersonalsecretaryof the presiding doctor.
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As apersonalsecretaryof the king, he worked in the royal archives and collected his material from older chronicles conserved there.
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A strong-willed, independent and unconventional woman, she caused a royal scandal when in 1902 she had a child fathered by herpersonalsecretary.
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