Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1.
the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Veterans Affairs;
- Example: "Bush appointed Edward J. Derwinski as the first Secretary of Veterans Affairs"2.
the position of the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs;
- Example: "the post of Secretary of Veterans Affairs was created in 1989"
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
n 1: the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of
Veterans Affairs; "Bush appointed Edward J. Derwinski as
the first Secretary of Veterans Affairs"
2: the position of the head of the Department of Veterans
Affairs; "the post of Secretary of Veterans Affairs was
created in 1989"