secondment
[ si-kond-muhnt ]
noun
the transfer of a military officer, official, or employee to another organization for temporary duty.
Origin of secondment
1Words Nearby secondment
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How to use secondment in a sentence
It’s here that they start to differentiate between in-housing, which is trying to do what an agency does, and embedding, where they take our experts and send them on secondment to their own businesses.
Brands rethink their in-housing plans after tactic was ‘put on ice’ amid pandemic | Seb Joseph | April 20, 2021 | Digiday
British Dictionary definitions for secondment
secondment
/ (sɪˈkɒndmənt) /
noun
British a temporary transfer to another job or post within the same organization
Origin of secondment
1C19: from French en second in second rank (or position)
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