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tandem

tandem

10 4.1
An arrangement of people or things placed one behind the other
  • noun
  • /ˈtændəm/
translation icon : tándem
  • The two bicycles moved in tandem, making it easier for them to travel together on the trail.
  • work in tandem
  • run in tandem
  • move in tandem

Examples

  • The two performances were meant to work in tandem, commenting on artwork in the "Africa Remix" exhibition.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Such reforms should be implemented in tandem with two closely related sets of policies.

    Academic text (2008)
  • "For the next few minutes they worked in tandem, without words."

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Other factors must be considered in tandem with the research on spiritual interventions.

    Academic text (2011)
  • During implementation, the business and regulatory personnel work in tandem to develop the capacity of the organization.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Senior Marconi Wireless Operator Jack Phillips and Junior Operator Harold Bride worked in tandem until the very end.

  • Implement initiatives to decentralize resources in tandem with formal political decentralization.

    Academic text (1992)
  • The NAEP framework (CCSSO 1994) was developed in tandem with the national standards for arts education.

    Academic text (1999)
  • In late antique and medieval magic, text and image worked in tandem to empower spells and the objects that facilitated them.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Clearly, Frank and Bea work in tandem to construct an idea of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century religion in Maine.

    Academic text (2017)

Idioms

12 3.5

Work together in a coordinated way

3.7

One behind the other in a single line

Compounds

A vehicle with two seats for two people who pedal while sitting one behind the other

tandem trailer
  • Specialized
7.0

Two trailers joined in a line and pulled by one truck

Surface Forms

tandem singular
tandems plural

Etymology

Tandem comes from Latin tandem, once meaning 'at length', and it now gives the idea of things set in a line. If people or objects are arranged in tandem, they are placed 'one behind the other' or working together in order.