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Secretary of State plural Secretaries of State
Any of several senior government positions whose function varies from nation to nation.
The chief clerk of a U.S. state .
2024 March 17, Daniel Medina and Bob Ortega, “Emails show how a right-wing group steers GOP leaders on major policy issues”, in CNN [1] When Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft jumped into the state’s gubernatorial race last year, the Republican vowed to tackle a slew of culture war issues, promising to fight the “woke politics” of “left-wing” banks and touting how he used his position to enact a regulation targeting those financial firms.
any of several senior government positions
Armenian: պետքարտուղար (hy) ( petkʻartuġar )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 國務卿 / 国务卿 (zh) ( guówùqīng ) ( U.S. foreign minister ) , 國務大臣 / 国务大臣 ( guówù dàchén )
Dutch: minister van Buitenlandse Zaken m
Finnish: valtiosihteeri (fi) ; ulkoministeri (fi) ( US Secr. of St. )
French: secrétaire d'État (fr) m or f
Georgian: სახელმწიფო მდივანი ( saxelmc̣ipo mdivani ) , საგარეო საქმეთა მინისტრი ( sagareo sakmeta minisṭri )
German: Staatssekretär (de) m Staatssekretärin (de) f
Hungarian: külügyminiszter (hu) ( US ) , államtitkár (hu) , miniszter (hu) ( UK )
Italian: segretario di Stato m segretaria di Stato f
Japanese: 国務長官 (ja) ( こくむちょうかん, kokumuchōkan )
Khmer: រដ្ឋលេខាធិការ (km) ( roattʰa’leekʰaatʰi’kaa )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ( in US ) utenriksminister (no) m
Nynorsk: ( in US ) utanriksminister m
Russian: госуда́рственный секрета́рь (ru) m ( gosudárstvennyj sekretárʹ ) , госсекрета́рь (ru) m ( gossekretárʹ ) , ( equivalent ) мини́стр иностра́нных дел (ru) m ( minístr inostránnyx del )
Spanish: Secretario de Estado m ( US ) , Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores m ( other countries )
Swedish: utrikesminister (sv) c
Vietnamese: ngoại trưởng (vi) , bộ trưởng ngoại giao quốc vụ khanh (vi)
chief clerk of a U.S. state
