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Definition: Secondment |
SecondmentNoun1. 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. |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 175 | 23,506 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "secondment": pre-secondment. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
secondment | 10 |
definition secondment | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 à disposição,a meio tempo,pela DG... (half-time secondment from DG...). (various references) командирование. (various references) adscrito temporalmente, a media jornada, por la DG... (half-time secondment from DG...). (various references) geçici görevlendirme, özel göreve getirme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 63 6F 6E 64 6D 65 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . -.-. --- -. -.. -- . -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01100011 01101111 01101110 01100100 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e c o n d m e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 0063 006F 006E 0064 006D 0065 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53716981807079718086 |
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