Crossword clues for secondment
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
secondment
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For many teachers a business secondment breaks their personal career cycle of school, university to school.
▪ If you are considering going on secondment during term time it is obviously important to minimise disruption to the teaching programme.
▪ The secondment provided a change and the chance to move on.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
secondment
1897, from second (v.) + -ment.
Wiktionary
secondment
n. the process or state of being seconded, the temporary transfer of a person from their normal duty to another assignment
WordNet
secondment
n. a speech seconding a motion; "do I hear a second?" [syn: second, endorsement, indorsement]
the detachment of a person from their regular organization for temporary assignment elsewhere
Usage examples of "secondment".
British nuclear submarine commanders feared by every other navy, Raikes has been on secondment to the Cabinet Office for the past eighteen months.
My fictional father was allegedly the manager of a Bauer plant in Buenos Aires and friend of the Bari managing director, who had agreed to give me a six-week secondment so that I could learn the business of import-export trading.