0 a secretary who works for a business manager or official, dealing with their letters, filing, etc.
2 a person whose job is to help a minister (= person in charge of a department) in a government
The assistant magistrate, then, must have invited the old litigation master to work for him as a private secretary.
His father spent his life working for high government officials as a private secretary.
Failed students often had to choose between becoming a private secretary to a magistrate or a litigation master, and there was a continuum between the two.
Furthermore, it was easy to move from one to the other, from private secretary to litigation master, or from litigation master to private secretary, and it did happen quite frequently.
I hear his former parliamentary private secretary telling me that that is absolute rubbish.
They share a private secretary and a personal secretary.
Finally, my parliamentary private secretary and many of my colleagues have also helped.
I received no acknowledgement from his office apart from a curt note from his private secretary.
