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SECRETARY OF WAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Head of a former executive department; combined with the Navy Secretary to form the Defense Secretary in 1947
Synonyms:
Secretary of War; War Secretary
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("Secretary of War" is a kind of...):
secretaryship (the position of secretary)