Word: Seconded
Ordinal number
Definitions:
1. Constituting number two in a sequence; coming after the first in time or order; 2nd.
Example sentences: "He married for a second time"
2. Subordinate or inferior in position, rank, or importance.
Example sentences: "It was second only to Copenhagen among Baltic ports"
3. An attendant assisting a combatant in a duel or boxing match.
Example sentences: "It included a tryst with a young man, who volunteered to be a second in a duel."
Verb
Definitions:
1. Formally support or endorse (a nomination or resolution or its proposer) as a necessary preliminary to adoption or further discussion.
Example sentences: "Bridgeman seconded Maxwell's motion calling for the reform"
Noun
Definitions:
1. A sixtieth of a minute of time, which as the SI unit of time is defined in terms of the natural periodicity of the radiation of a caesium-133 atom.A very short time.
Example sentences: "Torrance squeezed the trigger, waited twenty five seconds and fired again."
2. A sixtieth of a minute of angular distance.
Example sentences: "In actual numbers its resolution is about half an arc second, which is equivalent of seeing a five cent piece from about 10 kilometres away."
Verb
Definitions:
1. Transfer (a military officer or other official or worker) temporarily to other employment or another position.
Example sentences: "I was seconded to a public relations unit"
Derivations:
seconder
secondment
second
seconding
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Seconded in Other Languages...
Spanish:
German: Abgeordnete
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Italian:
Turkish: Desteklemek
