secretarial

Definitions

Examples

• In high school, O’Leary did secretarial work at the Pentagon, where she developed an affinity for clerical record books and other bureaucratic items.

• A prospective boss told young Cokie Roberts that women like her loved their dead-end secretarial jobs.

• In March 1944, shortly before Joye Hummel graduated from the Katharine Gibbs secretarial school in Manhattan, she was invited to meet with one of her instructors, a charismatic psychologist who had been impressed by her essays on a take-home test.

• I had been at secretarial college with those two girls [Valerie and her sister Mary], so I knew them very well.

• After all, she was back in the same tired circle: the icy, gray streets of Detroit, back and forth to work at a secretarial job.

• The British broadsheets called it “the most coveted secretarial job in the world.”

• When I was in high school, I had a secretarial job at a fuel company in a small town in New Hampshire.

• Draper told Lois that she was not made for a secretarial job.

• She had done some secretarial work for a charity of which the duchess was patroness.

• They'll probably tell you to take the next rocket back and report to the secretarial pool, I'm afraid.

• He had discovered her among communist councils in Berlin and naïvely attached her as a part of Dorn's secretarial retinue.

• Miss Conder's secretarial duties apparently left her wide margins of leisure which were always at the disposal of Miss Black.

• Presently I seated myself at the table and recommenced my secretarial duties, while he went forth.