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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
secondary
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a secondary infectionmedical (= an additional infection that happens as a result of the main illness)
▪ Often, scratching the skin because it is itchy results in secondary infection.
a secondary school (also a high school British English) (= for children from 11 to 16 or 18)
be of secondary importanceformal (= be less important than another thing)
▪ Sometimes we forget that the media coverage of a sport is actually of secondary importance to the event itself.
secondary education (also high school education American English) (= for children aged between 11 and 18)
▪ She hopes to start a teaching career in secondary education.
secondary modern
secondary school
secondary source
secondary stress
the primary/secondary/high school etc curriculum (=for particular ages at school)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Then it may be able to grasp the nettles of boundaries and ethos and see them as secondary.
▪ Other variables will be included in your schedule which are referred to as secondary or intervening variables.
▪ Doctors refer to this as secondary lactase deficiency.
▪ It will only take a short time before non-specialist schools achieve the same status as secondary moderns.
▪ As was suggested above, girls have been socialised into viewing work as secondary to marriage and child-rearing.
▪ There are, however, reasons for doubting whether financial objectives were quite as secondary as these points suggest.
■ NOUN
action
▪ Restoration of trade union immunity for certain kinds of secondary action.
▪ The same Bill will ban the remaining forms of secondary action, and outlaw closed shop agreements altogether.
analysis
▪ Sadly, even information specifically stored for secondary analysis can be marred by obscurities in definition that are not easily resolved.
▪ An example of this process is the secondary analysis of data.
care
▪ They will have an interest in knowing that the treatment technologies used in the secondary care sector are the most cost-effective available.
▪ Goodwill can permit effective cooperation for purchasing of secondary care but goodwill is ephemeral when difficult decisions have to be made.
▪ In considering the health care provision agencies we may usefully divide them into two main types: primary care and secondary care.
▪ For secondary care there is a mix of public, private, and charitable hospitals.
▪ Similarly, there are no restrictions on referrals to secondary care, although long waiting times act as a limitation in practice.
▪ It proposes that general practitioners control funds for all primary and secondary care.
▪ How the model will work Funds will flow through primary care to secondary care.
▪ The budgets for primary and secondary care will need to be integrated to permit appropriate transfer of resources.
consideration
▪ Any benefits to the library user was a secondary consideration.
▪ In these circumstances, historical accuracy became a strictly secondary consideration.
▪ But the quality and quantity of the skiing to be done in these places is almost a secondary consideration.
▪ Others want the biggest, fastest, meanest system on the block, and money is only a secondary consideration.
▪ For some professionals price would be a secondary consideration.
▪ If you do not earn the money, or enough of it, buying goods or services is a secondary consideration.
▪ A secondary consideration is long term.
▪ In his pragmatic search for a partner to fulfil a role, love and happiness were secondary considerations.
data
▪ The research is conducted by statistical analysis of secondary data on client companies and on market prices.
▪ They deal mainly with the analysis of secondary data, rather than multi-country analysis of survey data.
▪ These not only involved far more variables, but also secondary data sources in addition to field survey.
▪ The use of secondary data, rather than primary data collected by the data analyst; 2.
▪ The principal methods of investigation are the collection and analysis of secondary data, complemented by personal interviews, where necessary.
▪ Some of these questions can be answered by analysing secondary data and others by analysing primary data. 6.
education
▪ About 600,000 people leave the secondary education system every year.
▪ It was also important to restrict access to secondary education.
▪ Free secondary education increased the pressure on space.
▪ The medical school and secondary education were randomly changed so that shortlisting was not influenced by attendance at a particular school or university.
▪ All had to prepare a Development Plan describing five years' improvement to bring about secondary education for all.
▪ Although secondary education is compulsory, parents are not required to send their children to state schools.
▪ Primary education is actually more complex than secondary education.
importance
▪ What children gain in terms of content is surely of secondary importance.
▪ The precise form in which the words in these languages are represented is a matter of quite secondary importance.
▪ As far as the effects of population change on the economy are concerned, however, the particular disease is of secondary importance.
▪ The vascular changes and muscle contraction then could be considered to be of secondary importance.
▪ Wisdom and experience are of secondary importance in our world; it is expertise that is valued.
▪ A feature of such organizations is that the means are all-important and the ends are of relatively secondary importance.
▪ But inter-county rivalry will be of secondary importance for the 23-year-old World Student Games bronze medallist.
▪ The patient quickly concludes that tablets are the real treatment and the diet of secondary importance.
issue
▪ My final point is a secondary issue relating to the sample letter.
▪ But precise length is purely a secondary issue in art music.
▪ But he also said that the immunity of arbitrators was a secondary issue of public policy.
▪ But economics were a secondary issue to Joyce.
legislation
▪ The vital secondary legislation on the benefits system has not yet been published.
▪ I am dissatisfied with the way in which the House deals with secondary legislation.
▪ It has the advantage of being possible through the enactment of secondary legislation.
▪ Social security legislation by contrast is a complex web of primary and secondary legislation.
level
▪ Nor should we think that the situation is better at secondary level.
▪ Strategies for reducing school size at the secondary level are simple and easily undertaken.
▪ The table below shows that private and semi-official schools far outnumber state-run schools at secondary level.
▪ Then you overlay a secondary level of complex behavior that can emerge out of that bunch of working reflexes.
▪ This was followed by setting up of a voluntary multi-denominational school at secondary level, Lagan College, in 1981.
▪ At the secondary level, grades seven through twelve, the need to reduce school size is even greater.
▪ Back in the 1960s, science was taught only to a minority of children-the most academically able at secondary level.
▪ Enrolments at both primary and secondary levels fell sharply in the early 1980s before beginning to rise steadily from 1984 onwards.
market
▪ The amount of bonds being offered for sale by securities firms in the secondary market remained low.
▪ And the faster corporate bonds are issued, the speedier will be the development of an active secondary market.
▪ The yield on that bond has since fallen in the secondary market to 5. 51 percent.
▪ Most secondary market trading of eurobonds also takes place in London.
▪ In the secondary markets, spreads on investment-grade debt were quoted one to two basis points wider.
▪ Bonds may be bought either as new issue or second-hand on the secondary market.
▪ In the secondary market, traders said prices of junk bonds and spreads on investment-grade debt were unchanged in extremely slow trading.
modern
▪ The grammar schools and secondary moderns are similar in terms of class exclusivity.
▪ The ideology of merit had elevated the grammar school above technical schools, technical schools above secondary moderns.
▪ It will only take a short time before non-specialist schools achieve the same status as secondary moderns.
▪ By 1948, in the same county, the proportion for secondary moderns had risen to three-quarters.
▪ The grammar school still had many powerful and eloquent friends; by 1960 the secondary moderns had none.
role
▪ More pressing political problems would doubtless have necessitated the relegation of such matters to a secondary role.
▪ These considerations adumbrate the argument for the secondary role of consent in the justification of authority.
▪ He has been consigned to a secondary role on the Niners, and he has made a lot of it.
▪ The town council arranged the funeral and the guild members attended in a secondary role.
▪ To prevent women from being relegated to a secondary role.
school
▪ Secondary teachers only were included, since the case studies about which the survey seeks to generalize were of secondary schools.
▪ By secondary school there will be several hundred.
▪ Too rarely has it involved the specialist in the secondary school in regular discussion with primary colleagues.
▪ The place to create equality of opportunity is birth through secondary school, not beginning at the college level.
▪ Relatively few students reach secondary school, with a substantial proportion of these being in the Khartoum and Northern regions.
▪ It follows the Government's move to extend the literacy and numeracy strategies from primary into secondary schools.
▪ In 1965 members of parliament regretted that the separation of children into different types of secondary schools impeded the raising of standards.
▪ The Yellow Paper, as the leaked document came to be called, was critical of teaching in primary and secondary schools.
schooling
▪ Many of the requests are for practical, technical and vocational literature for all levels, from secondary schooling upwards.
▪ Full mixed-ability teaching, especially if it reached into the middle and later years of secondary schooling, was comparatively rare.
▪ But this will avail us nothing unless we get primary and secondary schooling right.
sector
▪ Quite a few have gone on to postgraduate teacher training to teach in the secondary sector.
▪ Equally important as the links with the secondary sector are the links with pre-school and support services.
▪ Moreover, in the secondary sector, it was hoped that comprehensivisation would be effective in equalising opportunities among different social groups.
▪ These discrepancies existed in both the primary and the secondary sectors, but were especially marked in the primary.
▪ Squeezing the primary banks simply pushed some customers into the secondary sector.
▪ Key Stage 3 is a vital bridge between the primary school and the upper stages of the secondary sector.
▪ The secondary sector in the Republic is hardly so simple in structure.
▪ In the secondary sector they have a long history of influence as local employers.
source
▪ The emphasis is on interpretation and evaluation of a variety of primary and secondary source material.
▪ Agriculture, deforestation and the other secondary sources of greenhouse gases are critical to many.
▪ The distinction between primary and secondary sources will not always be immediately obvious to the pupil.
▪ Scholars and researchers use the library approach when attempting to write articles for publication based on secondary sources.
▪ Questions on data availability are likely to be particularly important where users are heavily dependent on secondary sources.
▪ In his failure to take these differences into account, Leibniz fell victim to his reliance on secondary sources.
▪ The effective teacher of history will need to use both primary and secondary sources.
▪ Active enquiry is a feature of the course which places a heavy emphasis on the use of primary and secondary sources.
stage
▪ To wait until their children are in the secondary stage may seem a long time for delay.
▪ The sore of primary syphilis is followed after six to eight weeks by the development of the secondary stage.
▪ A secondary stage follows after a few more months and manifests itself by a rash on the face and body.
teacher
▪ Inspectors said that secondary teachers were failing to build on the success of primary science and were not challenging their younger pupils.
▪ In terms of feedback from the report, primary teachers seem to have had most and secondary teachers least.
▪ It will be recalled that only secondary teachers had been involved in the survey in Solihull.
▪ Gordon Small, one of my secondary teachers-I still see him and I copy his teaching style.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Price is the most important factor for us - location is a secondary issue.
▪ The government sees unemployment as a secondary issue.
▪ The study found that women were often reduced to secondary roles in the workplace.
▪ Tourism is secondary to oil revenues as a source of income.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Free secondary education increased the pressure on space.
▪ Liver biopsy showed that this patient already had secondary biliary cirrhosis.
▪ Some accept the secondary status the discipline allocates them.
▪ The secondary decisions that follow become, in fact, the primary decisions.
▪ These six secondary ideas in chapter 1 are distilled from a detailed discussion over many pages.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
secondary

low-level \low-level\ adj.

  1. weak; not intense; as, low-level radiation.

  2. lower in rank or importance. [Narrower terms: adjunct, assistant; associate(prenominal) ; {buck ; {deputy(prenominal), proxy(prenominal) ; {subject, dependent ; {subservient ] [Narrower terms: {under(prenominal) ; {ruled ; {secondary ] Also See {inferior, s ubordinate. Antonym: dominant.

    Syn: subordinate.

  3. at a low level in rank or importance; as, a low-level job; low-level discussions.

  4. occurring at a relatively low altitude; as, a low-level strafing run; low-level bombing.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
secondary

late 14c., from Latin secundarius "pertaining to the second class, inferior," from secundus (see second (adj.)). Of colors, from 1831; of education, from 1809. Of sex characteristics from 1780. Opposed to primary or principal. Related: Secondarily.

Wiktionary
secondary

a. 1 Succeeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate. 2 Acting by deputation or delegated authority; as, the work of secondary hands. 3 Possessing some quality, or having been subject to some operation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondary salt, a secondary amine, etc. Compare primary. 4 (context geology English) Subsequent in origin; -- said of minerals produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes. 5 (context zootomy English) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird. 6 (context medicine English) Dependent or consequent upon another disease; as, Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever; or occurring in the second stage of a disease; as, the secondary symptoms of syphilis. 7 Of less than primary importance. 8 (context of a color English) Formed by mixing primary colors. n. 1 (non-gloss definition: Used as an abbreviation to refer to items with names containing secondary.) 2 (context ornithology English) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird. 3 (context finance English) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation. 4 (context American football Canadian football English) The defensive backs. 5 (context electronics English) An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar 6 One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy. 7 (context astronomy English) A secondary circle. 8 (context astronomy English) A satellite.

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WordNet
secondary

  1. n. the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen

  2. coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil [syn: secondary coil, secondary winding]

secondary

  1. adj. of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate; "the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher"; "a secondary source"; "a secondary issue"; "secondary streams" [ant: primary]

  2. inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary" [syn: junior-grade, inferior, lower, lower-ranking, lowly, petty(a), subaltern, subordinate]

  3. depending on or incidental to what is original or primary; "a secondary infection"

  4. not of major importance; "played a secondary role in world events"

  5. belonging to a lower class or rank

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Wikipedia
Secondary

Secondary is an adjective meaning "second" or "second hand". It may refer to:

  • Secondary (chemistry), term used in organic chemistry to classify various types of compounds
  • The group of (usually at least four) defensive backs in gridiron football
  • An obsolete name for the Mesozoic in geosciences
  • The secondary winding, or the electrical or electronic circuit connected to the secondary winding in a transformer
  • Secondary emission, the phenomenon where primary incident particles of sufficient energy, when hitting a surface or passing through some material, induce the emission of secondary particles
    • Secondary electrons, electrons generated as ionization products
  • Secondary color, color made from mixing primary colors
  • Secondary craters, often called "secondaries"
  • Secondary consumers in ecology Trophic dynamics
  • Secondary dominant in music
  • Secondary education
    • Secondary school - The type of school at the secondary level of education
  • Secondary market, an aftermarket where financial assets are traded
  • Secondary mirror, second mirror element/focusing surface in a reflecting telescope
  • Secondaries, the second-largest group of remiges (wing feathers), which attach to the inner lower arm
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Usage examples of "secondary".

We may, however, omit for the present any consideration of the particular providence, that beforehand decision which accomplishes or holds things in abeyance to some good purpose and gives or withholds in our own regard: when we have established the Universal Providence which we affirm, we can link the secondary with it.

We have seen that if the end of the primary radicle is cut off or injured, the adjoining secondary radicles become geotropic and grow vertically downwards.

These heavily optimized fake stem cells biological robots in all but name spawn like cancer, ejecting short-lived anucleated secondary cells.

In practice it continued to be the rule for the New Testament to take a secondary place in apologetic writings and disputes with heretics.

As ever, it stirred his heart to see it there, morning light aslant through all the intricacy of its secondary construction.

Unfortunately, a chimera bombinating in a vacuum is, nowadays, only too capable of producing secondary causes.

Secondary explosions rent the air long seconds after the last bomblets fell, sending black smoke boiling above the fueled and armed aircraft parked by the tower, from a storage hangar, and from a large fuel tank nearby.

What would happen if you made a Higgs boson the normal way is a brief flash of light, some secondary particles and then it would be gone.

The factor for brachydactyly evidently produces its primary effect on the bones of the hand, but it also produces a secondary effect on all the bones of the body.

A microscopical examination of the green copper ores of secondary origin in the Clifton and Morenci district of Arizona proves brochantite to be of extremely common occurrence mostly intergrown with malachite which effectually masks its presence: it is not unlikely that the malachite of other localities will on examination be found to be intergrown with brochantite.

A bionoid ship, armed with the stolen elven cloaking device, will follow the swan ship to Lionheart and release the secondary marauder.

A secondary system, the steam system, takes energy from the primary coolant and uses it for propulsion--the secondary system is not radioactive.

But just as in language certain diphthongs and syllables are frequently recurring, so we have in the body certain secondary and tertiary combinations, which we meet more frequently than the solitary elements of which they are composed.

I kept a secondary doss in Purity, paying my protection money to the Amerindian street gang in the area.

Numerous scientists of the seventeenth century, from Galileo to Newton, affirmed the Cartesian dualism of the primary properties of the physical world versus the secondary properties associated with human perception.