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verb/sɪˈkɒnd/
/sɪˈkɑːnd/
[usually passive] (especially British English)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they second | /sɪˈkɒnd/ /sɪˈkɑːnd/ |
| he / she / it seconds | /sɪˈkɒndz/ /sɪˈkɑːndz/ |
| past simple seconded | /sɪˈkɒndɪd/ /sɪˈkɑːndɪd/ |
| past participle seconded | /sɪˈkɒndɪd/ /sɪˈkɑːndɪd/ |
| -ing form seconding | /sɪˈkɒndɪŋ/ /sɪˈkɑːndɪŋ/ |
- to send an employee to another department, office, etc. in order to do a different job for a short period of time
- be seconded (from something) (to something) Each year two teachers are seconded to industry for six months.
Oxford Collocations DictionarySecond is used with these nouns as the object:- motion
Word Originearly 19th cent.: from French en second ‘in the second rank (of officers)’.Definitions on the go
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