'secretarial' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who works as a secretary or provides secretarial services. Example: She took on a part-time secretarial role to supplement her income.
These activities demanded a smooth prose style, and Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ has therefore rightly been regarded as the inaugurator of what is called "secretarial literature" (that produced by secretaries in the official chancelleries).
This was a basic secretarial job – not that that should make any difference – and just the latest in a line of about 90 failed applications over the past eight months.
It was decades before the outside world learned anything of what went on in the warren of dilapidated huts surrounding the ugly Edwardian mansion in Buckinghamshire, but the bright young women recruited from secretarial colleges, the armed forces, or straight from school, scarcely knew any more.
Born in South Africa to Zimbabwean parents, Grace was a 20-year-old divorcee when she got a secretarial job in the president's office.
Two buildings took the full force of the main blast from a parked van - the US embassy and, behind it, Ufundi Co-op House, which contains a secretarial college and offices.
As a result, Debra Williams, a teacher in the secretarial studies section, kept her job because she was black; and Sharon Taxman lost hers because she was white.
It suggests that head teachers, especially those in small primary schools, could be given a secretarial allowance similar to that paid to MPs.
On top of the basic salary of over €9,000 a month, MEPs will benefit from a special low tax rate, a generous pension scheme, a tax-free allowance of €257 for every day they turn up to work, a further €3,620 a month in general expenses, and over €12,000 a month to pay for secretarial help and office equipment.
But British finishing schools have closed or turned into business and secretarial colleges.It seems, however, that mothers still want their daughters to stand up straight and make polite conversation.
He will be expected to bring the clout that comes with having run a large EU member to the job and, presumably, would not have given up the Polish premiership if he considered the presidency to be little more than a glorified secretarial role.
