permanent secretary
noun [C] UKDefinition
› a government official who belongs to the Civil Service (= the official departments responsible for putting government plans into action) rather than an elected governmentGovernment ministers and civil servants
(Definition of permanent secretary noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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