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Secondment

Definition: Secondment

Secondment

Noun

1. The detachment of a person from their regular organization for temporary assignment elsewhere.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Usage Frequency: Secondment

"Secondment" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Secondment" is used about 175 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%17523,506

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Secondment

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "secondment": pre-secondment.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Secondment

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

secondment

10

definition secondment

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Secondment

Language Translations for "secondment"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

临时外调. (various references)

   

Danish

  

stillet til rådighed på deltid af GD... (half-time secondment from DG...). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

detachering. (various references)

   

French

  

détachement. (various references)

   

German

  

Abordnung (delegacy, delegation, deputation). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

απόσπαση (ablation(artificial), amotio, balatio, calving, detach, detachment, evulsion, extortion, extraction, pull). (various references)

   

Italian

  

distaccamento (detachment, draft). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

econdmentsay

   

Portuguese

  

à disposição,a meio tempo,pela DG... (half-time secondment from DG...). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

командирование. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

adscrito temporalmente, a media jornada, por la DG... (half-time secondment from DG...). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

geçici görevlendirme, özel göreve getirme. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Secondment

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-m-n-n-o-s-t"

-1 letter: consented, contemned.

-2 letters: centones, condemns, condense, contemns, contends, demetons, endnotes, sonneted.

-3 letters: cements, cenotes, cestode, condemn, consent, contemn, contend, dements, demeton, demotes, denotes, descent, docents, donnees, encodes, endmost, endnote, escoted, scented, seconde, tendons, tenoned, tonemes.

-4 letters: cement, cenote, censed, centos, codens, comets, comtes, conned, contes, costed, decent, dement, demons, demote, denote, docent, donees, donnee.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-m-n-n-o-s-t"
 

+2 letters: misconnected.

 

+3 letters: denouncements, uncompensated.

 

+4 letters: counterdemands, decompensating, decompensation, decontaminates, disconcertment, discontentment.

 

+5 letters: acknowledgments, decompensations, disconcertments, discontentments, mononucleotides, recommendations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Secondment


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 65 63 6F 6E 64 6D 65 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .    -.-.    ---    -.    -..    --    .    -.    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100101 01100011 01101111 01101110 01100100 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#99 &#111 &#110 &#100 &#109 &#101 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 0063 006F 006E 0064 006D 0065 006E 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53716981807079718086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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