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secondment

UK/səˈkɒn(d)mənt/US/səˈkɒn(d)mənt/
nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,183 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: secondments

A secondment is a temporary move to another team or organisation. Go on secondment.

The job is held open, which is what separates it from taking another post. A secondment teaches more in six months than most training does in three years.

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Definitions of secondment

  1. 1nounsecondmentA temporary move to another team or organisation.C1

    “The secondment to the department lasted eighteen months.”

secondment is a move.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *sekʷ-

  2. Middle English

    secunde

  3. English

    second

  4. English, today

    secondment

Built from

  • sequor · Latin — to follow

From second + -ment. second comes from Middle English secunde. From Middle English secunde, second, secound, secund, borrowed from Old French second, seond, from Latin secundus (“following, next in order”), from root of sequor (“to follow”), from Proto-Indo-European sekʷ- (“to follow”). a doublet of secund and secundo. Displaced native twoth and partially displaced native other (from Old English ōþer (“other; next; second”)).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Work & Careers

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secondment in the wild

  • In 1946 he took up a research position with Metropolitan-Vickers, leading to a secondment to Bristol University, where Nobel laureate Nevill Mott was head of the department.

    William Mitchell (physicist)

  • However, they are usually commanded by officers on secondment from the Pakistan Army.

    Pakistan Rangers

  • From 2000 to 2015, the combined police, immigration, and customs role was held by a series of foreign professionals on short-term secondment.

    Law enforcement in the Pitcairn Islands

  • Stephen Evans CMG OBE is a British diplomat who has been on secondment since 2011 as NATO Assistant Secretary General for Operations.

    Stephen Evans (diplomat)

  • McCarthy qualified as a CPA in 1987 and then spent a few years on secondment to Ernst and Young.

    George McCarthy (Caymanian civil servant)

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the sequor family

second

secondment — used about once every 159,543 pages · #15,183 · point at the bar for the others

  • secondary