undersecretary

undersecretary

See also: Under Secretary

English

Etymology

under- +‎ secretary

Noun

undersecretary (plural undersecretaries)

1. An administrator immediately subordinate to a head of a government department or to a member of a cabinet
2. An assistant or deputy secretary of a government department in the Philippines and some other countries.

Translations

an administrator immediately subordinate to a head of a government department or to a member of a cabinet

Chinese: Mandarin: 副部長 (zh), 副部长 (zh) (fùbùzhǎng) Dutch: onderminister (nl) m French: sous-secrétaire (fr) m or f Hungarian: államtitkár (hu) Indonesian: menteri muda Irish: fo-rúnaí m Italian: sottosegretario (it) m, sottosegretaria f, viceministro (it) m Japanese: 次官 (ja) (じかん, jikan) Korean: 차관(次官) (ko) (chagwan) Manx: fo-screeudeyr m, lhiass-screeudeyr m Russian: заммини́стра (ru) m (zamminístra) Spanish: subsecretario m Tagalog: pangalawang kalihim (sense 2), pangatlong kalihim (sense 1) Turkish: müsteşar (tr)