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When you hear the word secretariat you probably think of important government officials or key United Nations administrators. The offices of any secretary (such as the Secretary of the Treasury) can also be called a secretariat, as can the secretarial or clerical staff of an organization.

All these senses are true to the history of the word secretariat, which (since the days of Medieval Latin) has meant basically "secretary" or "confidante." But official officers and efficient clerical staff aren’t what we had in mind when we introduced the subject of secretariat.

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