to second
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6.4
- verb
- /sɪˈkɒnd/
- UK
- After a year in marketing, she was seconded to the HR team for training purposes.
Examples
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Teachers enter the civil service as employees of the central government, although they are immediately and almost always permanently seconded to the regional governments.
Academic text (1995) -
I was seconded to the sales department to help manage a new project.
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I was seconded for duty from the Home Office.
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I was a professional soldier seconded from the British Army.
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He is to be seconded to the Treasury Department.
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I've been seconded to the Arab Bureau.
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In 1938, Bill was appointed Assistant Keeper in the Department of Ethnography of the British Museum, although from 1942 to 1945 he was seconded to the Board of Trade.
Academic text (1994) -
To demonstrate government interest, the colonial administration seconded Mr. Donald Faulkner, an accomplished social worker from the Prisons Department, as the first colonial welfare officer.
Academic text (2011) -
Even before World War II, General Douglas MacArthur was seconded to the Philippine government, acting as commander-in-chief of both American and Filipino forces.
Academic text (1992) -
My first appointment as a professor was about 35 years ago, when the University of Kuopio in Finland seconded me to the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
62
4.1
Move a person to a different job or place of work within a company
Idioms
- Informal
8
6.0
A person who has a less important role and helps someone more important
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
1
7.0
To doubt your own decisions and worry you made the wrong choice
Compounds
27
2.8
A child of your parent's first cousin who shares your great-grandparents but not your grandparents
18
4.4
A player who stands near second base and catches or throws the ball to get runners out
12
6.0
A junior officer with the lowest rank in the Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps
6
6.3
A meeting of Catholic Church leaders from 1962 to 1965 that changed worship and encouraged talks with other Christian churches
- Specialized
6
7.0
Energy naturally spreads from hot places to cold ones, increasing disorder
4
4.1
A measure of speed that shows how many kilometers something moves in one second
4
5.0
An upper seating area at the back of a theatre with the least expensive seats
3
4.3
A woman who cares for someone like a mother, often with or instead of their own mother
- Specialized
3
3.0
Words that refer to the person or people you speak to, for example 'you'
- Specialized
1
7.9
A stomach part in animals like cows that helps break down plant food
- Archaic
1
7.7
A period in old age when mental decline makes a person behave like a young child
- Specialized
1
2.8
A unit that shows how many small pieces of information called bits are sent every second
- Specialized
1
4.7
A rule that says how a force makes an object move faster depending on its mass
- Specialized
1
4.5
A rule that a force changes an object's motion more when the force is bigger or the object is lighter
- Specialized
1
6.7
The distance light travels in one second in empty space, about 300,000 kilometers
- Jargon
1
6.5
A system or tool that stores information to help you remember and organize things
- Specialized
1
6.8
An extra second added to clocks so they match how fast the Earth turns
1
8.9
A war between China and Japan from 1894 to 1895 that ended in a clear Japanese victory
1
8.8
A military campaign by European Christians in the 1100s to take back the Holy Land that failed because leaders fought
- Specialized
1
4.4
A unit for measuring how fast a computer processor runs, equal to one million instructions per second
1
9.9
A church meeting in 787 that stopped destroying religious images and allowed their use in worship
How Temporary
- UK
1
6.4
62
4.1
Surface Forms
Etymology
Second in the sense of sending someone temporarily comes from the idea of making them a 'second' or helper elsewhere, so to be seconded is to be sent to support another team or project for a time.