secondment

1. 1.

   a speech seconding a motion

   “do I hear a second?”

   Synonymssecondendorsementindorsement

   Broaderagreement
2. 2.

   the detachment of a person from their regular organization for temporary assignment elsewhere

   Broaderreassignment

Other forms of secondment

plural

secondments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about secondment

What does secondment mean?

secondment means "a speech seconding a motion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in secondment?

secondment has 3 syllables: se-cond-ment. The stress falls on "se".

What is another word for secondment?

Close synonyms include second, endorsement, indorsement. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is secondment a common word?

secondment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.