Citations:secretary

intransitive verb

• 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, →ISBN, page 182:

  He nodded. "I do. I hadn't thought of it, but now that you remind me I recall the scene perfectly. It was just as you—"

  "Mr Kimball!" The secretary was 'secretarying. "It would be better perhaps if you—that is, upon reflection—"