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We took an approach, supported by the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and the Mayor for London, that we had very real fears of violence and damage being caused across the streets of London.
Michael Todd

Meaning of "Home Secretary" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HOME SECRETARY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOME SECRETARY

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Home Secretary is a noun.
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WHAT DOES HOME SECRETARY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Home Secretary

Home Secretary

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, commonly known as the Home Secretary, is the minister responsible for the Home Office of the United Kingdom, one of the four Great Offices of State. The Home Secretary is responsible for the internal affairs of England and Wales, and for immigration and citizenship for the whole of the United Kingdom. The remit of the Home Office also includes policing in England and Wales and matters of national security, as the Security Service, MI5, is directly accountable to the Home Secretary. Formerly, the Home Secretary was the minister responsible for prisons and probation in England and Wales; however, in 2005 those responsibilities were transferred to the newly created Ministry of Justice under the Lord Chancellor. The current Home Secretary is The Rt Honourable Theresa May, MP, appointed on 12 May 2010 by the Prime Minister, David Cameron, to serve in the Conservative-Liberal Democratic coalition government.

Definition of Home Secretary in the English dictionary

The definition of Home Secretary in the dictionary is short for Secretary of State for the Home Department; the head of the Home Office.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOME SECRETARY

Home of the Hirsel
Home Office

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOME SECRETARY

assistant secretary
budgetary
Chief Secretary
cometary
company secretary
Deputy Secretary
dietary
elementary
executive secretary
foreign secretary
General Secretary
interplanetary
monetary
nonproprietary
planetary
press secretary
proprietary
secretary
shadow Foreign Secretary
Treasury Secretary
undersecretary

Synonyms and antonyms of Home Secretary in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Home Secretary» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOME SECRETARY

Find out the translation of Home Secretary to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Home Secretary from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Home Secretary» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

内政大臣
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Ministro del Interior
570 millions of speakers

English

Home Secretary
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गृह सचिव
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

وزير الداخلية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

министр внутренних дел
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Ministro da Administração Interna
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্বরাষ্ট্রসচিব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Ministre de l´Intérieur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Setiausaha Rumah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Innenminister
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

内務大臣
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

내무 장관
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sekretaris Ngarep
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Bộ trưởng Nội
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உள்துறை செயலாளர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गृहसचिव
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ev Sekreteri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Home Secretary
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Minister spraw wewnętrznych
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

міністр внутрішніх справ
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Ministrul de Interne
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Υπουργός Εσωτερικών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Home Sekretaris
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

inrikesminister
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

innenriksminister
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Home Secretary

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOME SECRETARY»

The term «Home Secretary» is quite widely used and occupies the 37.968 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOME SECRETARY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Home Secretary

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2 QUOTES WITH «HOME SECRETARY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Home Secretary.
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Kamal Ahmed
Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.
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Michael Todd
We took an approach, supported by the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and the Mayor for London, that we had very real fears of violence and damage being caused across the streets of London.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOME SECRETARY»

Discover the use of Home Secretary in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Home Secretary and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cases, Materials and Commentary on Administrative Law
He successfully challenged the Home Secretary's refusal of the application without giving reasons (above, p. 750). Following the change of government in 1997, the new Home Secretary, Jack Straw M.P., announced a change of policy on the ...
‎2005
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates
Regina" (see Akmy — Officers) Mr. Montagu Williams and an Irish Applicant, Question, Mr. Mao Neill; Answer, The Home Secretary June 27, 199 Police Metropolitan Police (see Metropolis — Police, Monk Bretton), Question, Earl Compton ...
Great Britain. Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard, 1890
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The Parliamentary Debates (official Report[s]) ...
Guy, Sarah, Case of, Question, Mr. S. Smith; Answer, The Home Secretary May 16 [336] 228 Haywood, George—Juvenile Ofl'ender, Question, Mr. Fuller; Answer , The Home Secretary July 30 [338] 1698 Hunter, Samuel, Case of, Questions, ...
Great Britain. Parliament, 1889
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The Parliamentary Debates (Authorized Edition)
What the Home Secretary said in his speech was quite satisfactory as far as it went, and he hoped the right hon. Gentleman would continue his inquiries and press them to a definite conclusion, which would render it certain that those who  ...
Great Britain. Parliament, 1902
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Law and Administration
626 R v Home Secretary, ex p Darendranath Doorga [1990] COD 109 .................... ........ .. 689 R v Home Secretary, ex p Doody [1993] 3 WLR 154, HL .................. .. 624, 625, 628, 633, 636, 637, 640 R v Home Secretary, ex p Fayed [1997] 1 All ...
Carol Harlow, Richard Rawlings, 2009
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British Government and the Constitution: Text and Materials
That was clear from the assurance in the 1983 policy statement [by the Home Secretary, Mr Leon Brittan] that 'except where a prisoner has committed an offence for which he has received a further custodial sentence, the formal review date will ...
Colin Turpin, Adam Tomkins, 2011
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The Home Office, 1848-1914, from Clerks to Bureaucrats
... and then when his personally- appointed clerk died in 1890 it became the norm for the permanent under-secretary too to have a junior clerk as private secretary.43 The home secretary's private secretaryship was regarded as the ' plum' post ...
Jill Pellew, 1982
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Chartism in the North Riding of Yorkshire and South Durham, ...
32 HO 40/42, Darlington Magistrates to Home Secretary, 3 August 1839. 33 Richmond, Local Records of Stockton, p. 182; HO 40/42, Wilson & Faber, Clerks to the Magistrates, Stockton Ward, to Home Secretary, 3 August 1839, Depositions of ...
R. P. Hastings, 2004
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Reports from Commissioners
The Home Secretary might answer him- self, or allow the answer to be given through the Lord Advocate. 303. But the Home Secretary would control the acts of the Board of Supervision ? — Certainly. 304. And the Lord Advocate would not?
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1870
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Fighting Words: Writing about Race
Sec, 6 June 1892, QSA Col A699 in letter no. 6835 of 1892; A. Meston to Home Secretary, 25 November 1899, QSA: Mission Schools File; A. Meston to Home Secretary, 10 February 1897, and reply 15 February 1897, QSA Col 029 in letter no.
Raymond Evans, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOME SECRETARY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Home Secretary is used in the context of the following news items.
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Police water cannon use rejected by home secretary - BBC News
The home secretary has refused to allow the use of water cannon in England and Wales - a year after three of them were bought by the ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
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Boris Johnson humiliated: Home Secretary vetoes watercanons …
Boris Johnson humiliated as Home Secretary vetoes use of watercanons he spent £200,000 importing from Germany. Ronda Rousey attends ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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UK Home Secretary Theresa May refuses to authorize use of water …
Editor's note: England's 2-1 victory over Norway is the country's first-ever win in the knockout round of the Women's World Cup. - Tom. «BreakingNews.com, Jul 15»
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Video: Home Secretary announces creation of Calais 'secure zone …
Home Secretary Theresa May has announced the creation of a 'secure zone' at the Port of Calais in an effort to stop migrants boarding lorries. «Belfast Telegraph, Jul 15»
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Steven Woolfe responds to the Home Secretary's statement on the …
But the Home Secretary's statement is short on implementing the two critical things that will make a real difference in both stopping illegal ... «UKIP, Jul 15»
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Trader body takes up warehousing, transfer of property with home
The delegation comprising of the CBM president Charanjiv Singh and other members of the Mandal asked the home secretary to include ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
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Theresa May to force foreign students to leave the UK when their …
Foreign students are to be banned from working in Britain under a fresh crackdown on immigration ordered by Home Secretary Theresa May. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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Home Secretary meets Rajnath Singh, MP Governor may be sacked …
Home secretary LC Goyal on Thursday held a meeting with Home Minister Rajnath Singh. #Kapil Sibal #lc goyal #rajnath singh #ram naresh ... «IBNLive, Jul 15»
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Sanjeev Nandan Sahai appointed as Delhi's new Home Secretary
NEW DELHI: Senior IAS officer Sanjeev Nandan Sahai was today appointed as the new Home Secretary of Delhi, ending a bitter tussle ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»
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Son of funeral home secretary accused of stealing items from the dead
Cizek is the son of the funeral home's secretary. He was working as a landscaper at the time and had access to the funeral home, including the ... «WLWT Cincinnati, Jul 15»

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