Preposition: of

• ballot: There is no suggestion that any proposal to record the return of a postal vote would affect the secrecy of the ballot.

• vote: Everyone is subject to a legal requirement to maintain the secrecy of the electors vote.

Converse of object

• maintain: Everyone is subject to a legal requirement to maintain the secrecy of the electors vote.

• preserve: Security, in the sense of preserving secrecy, took various forms.

• impose: The British imposed strict secrecy of course on the Ultra production process.

• govern: There are no specific statutory provisions governing secrecy in relation to companies.

• protect: You and your colleagues must take care to protect the secrecy of your password for WebLearn.

• ensure: The scheme provides a high degree of transparency whilst ensuring the secrecy of votes.

Adjective modifier

• utmost: However, the need for utmost secrecy must be observed.

• obsessive: I have been pleased to find there is not the obsessive secrecy I'd come to expect during my previous marriage.

• absolute: For the next two years the group would develop the project in absolute secrecy, hiding behind their Atari 2600 joystick & games business.

• excessive: The Bill fails on at least three major ways to herald the end to excessive government secrecy.

• strict: The British imposed strict secrecy of course on the Ultra production process.

• unnecessary: By getting rid of juries we could eliminate unnecessary secrecy.

Modifies a noun

• clause: Clause 59 of the bill extends a secrecy clause in the Data Protection Act 1998 to the Information Commissioner.

• law: The current secrecy laws are far too restrictive; they encourage abuse.

• provision: We have to look at the existing secrecy provisions in our laws.

Noun used with modifier

• banking: In the name of banking secrecy, the list of debtors is not available.

• ballot: Ballot secrecy The Act of Parliament introducing the principle of the ' secret ballot ' was first introduced in 1872.

• bank: The language on bank secrecy is blunt: " States shall not decline to act... on the ground of bank secrecy.