1. (n.) One who keeps, or is entrusted with, secrets or notes\.

2. (n.) A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public or private papers, records, and the like; an official scribe, amanuensis, or writer; one who attends to correspondence, and transacts other business, for an association, a public body, or an individual.

3. (n.) An officer of state whose business is to superintend and manage the affairs of a particular department of government, and who is usually a member of the cabinet or advisory council of the chief executive; as, the secretary of state, who conducts the correspondence and attends to the relations of a government with foreign courts; the secretary of the treasury, who manages the department of finance; the secretary of war, etc.

4. (n.) A piece of furniture, with conveniences for writing and for the arrangement of papers; an escritoire.

5. (n.) The secretary bird.

CA CPA abacist accountant general actuary amanuensis archivist auditor bank accountant bank examiner bookkeeper bursar calculator cashier cashkeeper certified public accountant chamberlain chartered accountant clerk comptroller computer controller cost accountant cost keeper curator depositary depository documentalist engraver estimator figurer filing clerk financial officer journalizer librarian liquidator marker notary notary public paymaster prothonotary purse bearer purser receiver reckoner record clerk recorder recordist register registrar scorekeeper scorer scribe scrivener secretary statistician stenographer steward stonecutter timekeeper treasurer trustee