Collocations for secretary - noun

executive, legal
medical
press, publicity
personal, private
social
school

deputy
deputy secretary of agriculture in the Bush administration

assistant
assistant secretary of commerce under President Clinton

acting
former
former Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen

cabinet
state
Agriculture, Commerce, Defence, Education, Health, Homeland Security, Interior, Labor, Transportation, Treasury, etc.

resign as
replace (sb as)

secretary for
the Treasury Department's Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy

secretary of
a former assistant secretary of defense

Secretary of State
the US Secretary of State

permanent
former
the former Secretary of State for Energy, Cecil Parkinson

cabinet, shadow (= a senior British politician of the opposition party)
parliamentary
Agriculture, Defence, Economic, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Financial, Foreign, Health, Home, Transport, Treasury, etc.

secretary to
the Financial Secretary to the Treasury

Secretary of State
the Secretary of State for Education

chief, first
the First Secretary of the Communist Party

assistant, deputy
honorary
executive, general
branch, district, group, national, party, regional
club, company

resign as
elect
elect sb, elect sb as
replace
replace sb as

General
UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon

secretary to
secretary to the Jockey Club

the post of secretary