secondment

[si-kond-muhnt]

se·cond·ment

[si-kond-muhnt]
noun British.
the transfer of a military officer or corporate executive to another post for temporary duty.

Origin:
1895–1900; second3 + -ment
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Secondment is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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secondment (sɪˈkɒndmənt)
 
n
(Brit) a temporary transfer to another job or post within the same organization
 
[C19: from French en second in second rank (or position)]

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