secretariat

See also: secrétariat

English

Alternative forms

• secretariate

Etymology

Borrowed from French secrétariat.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛk.ɹəˈtɛə.ɹɪ.ət/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛk.ɹəˈtɛɚ.i.ət/

• Audio (General American):

  (file)

Noun

secretariat (plural secretariats)

1. The office or department of a government secretary.
2. (Roman Catholicism) A kind of dicastery within the Roman Curia.
3. (chiefly non-native speakers' English) A subdivision within an organisation or a company that deals with office management and/or administrative tasks such as handling correspondence and telephone calls, scheduling appointments, administering invoices, etc., often attached to specific executives or specific departments

Derived terms

• subsecretariat
• undersecretariat

Related terms

• secretary

Translations

the office or department of a government secretary

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 秘書處 / 秘书处 (zh) (mìshūchù), 書記處 / 书记处 (zh) (shūjìchù)

• Danish: sekretariat (da) n (also refers to the head office of political parties and some organizations)
• Dutch: ministerie (nl) n (government department), kabinet (nl) n (Belgium; personal staff and office of a member of government)
• Finnish: sihteerin virasto
• French: secrétariat (fr) m
• Georgian: სამდივნო (samdivno)
• German: Sekretariat (de) n
• Hebrew: מזכירות (mazkirut)
• Hindi: सचिवालय (hi) m (sacivālay)
• Hungarian: titkárság (hu)
• Ido: sekretariato (io)
• Indonesian: sekretariat (id)
• Irish: ardrúnaíocht f, rúnaíocht f, rúnaireacht f
• Italian: segretariato (it)
• Japanese: 事務局 (ja) (jimukyoku), 官房 (ja) (kanbō)
• Kazakh: хатшылық (xatšılıq)
• Malay: sekretariat
• Persian: دبیرخانه (fa) (dabirxâne)
• Polish: sekretariat (pl) m
• Portuguese: secretaria (pt) f
• Romanian: secretariat (ro) n
• Russian: секретариа́т (ru) m (sekretariát)
• Spanish: secretaría (es)
• Swahili: ukatibu (sw), sekretarieti
• Swedish: sekretariat (sv) n
• Tagalog: kalihiman
• Telugu: సచివాలయము (sacivālayamu)
• Turkish: sekretarya
• Vietnamese: văn phòng tổng thư ký, phòng bí thư, ban bí thư (vi)

a kind of dicastery within the Roman Curia

• Vietnamese: quốc vụ viện (vi)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French secrétariat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se.kre.ta.riˈat/

Noun

secretariat n (plural secretariate)

1. secretariat; office

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	secretariat	secretariatul	secretariate	secretariatele
genitive-dative	secretariat	secretariatului	secretariate	secretariatelor
vocative	secretariatule		secretariatelor

Related terms

• secret
• secretar, secretară

References

• “secretariat”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026