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Home Secretary

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Home Secretary
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Brit Government short for Secretary of State for the Home Department; the head of the Home Office
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Noun1.Home Secretary - the British cabinet minister who is head of the Home Office
Secretary of State for the Home Department
British Cabinet - the senior ministers of the British government
cabinet minister - a person who is a member of the cabinet
Translations
Home Secretary n (Brit) → ministro degli Interni
Home Secretary n (Brit) → ministro degli Interni


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Brott, the Home Secretary - our one great politician, you know.
The Yellow Crayon by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
The average at that time in the Grand Duchy of Baden was forty-five to a young person (when alone), according to the official estimate of the home secretary for that year; the average for older people was shifty and indeterminable, for whenever a wholesome young girl came into the presence of her elders she immediately lowered their average and raised her own.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
I earnestly hoped and prayed that he might die before the Recorder's Report was made, but, in the dread of his lingering on, I began that night to write out a petition to the Home Secretary of State, setting forth my knowledge of him, and how it was that he had come back for my sake.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
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