Home-secretary Definition

noun

(UK) The British cabinet minister, responsible for law and order, who is head of the Home Office.

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  • Secretary of State for the Home Department

Home-secretary Sentence Examples

  • They must be ordered by the visitors of the prison and confirmed by the home secretary.

  • Prison chaplains are appointed by the home secretary.

  • In May 1918 he became Chief Secretary for Ireland, but in 1919 resigned and was appointed Home Secretary.

  • The home secretary exercises powers of supervision, &c. See Juvenile Offenders.

  • Defeated at the general election at Pontefract, he was returned as a Home Ruler (one of the few Liberals who adopted this policy before Mr Gladstone's conversion) in 1886 for South Edinburgh, and was home secretary in the ministry of 1886.

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