Secretary of State

English

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
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