secretariat

/ˌsekrəˈteəriət/

/-ˈteri-/ noun [C] POLITICS, GOVERNMENT

Definition

› the office or people responsible for managing an organization, especially a political or international one: One of the report's recommendations was that a national security secretariat should be set up at the heart of the government.

(Definition of secretariat noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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