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secondment

[ si-kond-muhnt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the transfer of a military officer, official, or employee to another organization for temporary duty.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of secondment¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; second ³ + -ment

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Example Sentences

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.

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