ADJ
- executive, legal
- press, publicity
- personal, private
- social
- school
ADJ
- chief, first
- the First Secretary of the Communist Party
- deputy, under
- assistant
- acting
- permanent
- honorary
- former, then
- the then Secretary of State for Energy, Cecil Parkinson
- executive, general
- branch, district, group, national, regional
- club, company
- cabinet, shadow (= a senior British politician of the opposition party)
- parliamentary, state
- Agriculture, Defence, Economic, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Financial, Foreign, Health, Home, Trade and Industry, Transport, Treasury, etc.
VERB + SECRETARY
- act as
- resign as
- elect, elect sb (as)
- replace (sb as)
SECRETARY + NOUN
- General
- UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan
PREP
- ~ for
- the Secretary for National Defence
- ~ to
- secretary to the jockey club
PHRASES
- the post of secretary, Secretary of State
- the United States Secretary of State