secondable

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English

Etymology

From second +‎ -able.

Adjective

secondable (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being seconded.
    • 1953, George Demeter, Manual of parliamentary law and procedure, page 98:
      The second motion, to adjourn, is secondable and requires a majority vote, but is not debatable or amendable, and cannot be reconsidered (no D, A or R shown).
    • 2014, Jolyon Howorth, Security and Defence Policy in the European Union, →ISBN, page 103:
      The key propositions, to be achieved by 2010, were: improvement of the quality of trained personnel deployed; enhancing the availability of secondable civilian personnel;

Adverb

secondable (not comparable)

  1. Eggcorn of second of all.
    • 1993, Luca Reddavide, The Evolution of Wealth Management: Transformation and Innovation of Robo Advisory, thesis submitted to Università Ca' Foscari Venezia:
      … two main reasons. Firstly, as the wealth increases the complexity of its administration increments as well, making compulsory the support of a professional; secondable, since the cost structure is usually linked with the assets under management, they …
    • 2014 December 23, Quinten Plummer, “Teens Show Thumbs Up to Instagram but Thumbs Down to Facebook”, in Tech Times:
      Secondable (see the firstable hyperlink), Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there isn't much headroom for his company's social networking site.
    • 2015, Heidi Rosala, Consumer selection of vegetarian food in restaurants, thesis submitted to University of Jyväskylä:
      Firstable, workers who work in a close connection with pesticides like formulators, sprayers, mixers, loaders and agricultural farm workers have a big risk to expose themselves to the pesticides that harm their health. Secondable, people can expose to a number of pesticides through food
    • 2020, T. E. Boukelia, A. Bouraoui, A. Laouafi, S. Djimli, Y. Kabar, “3E (Energy-Exergy-Economic) comparative study of integrating wet and dry cooling systems in solar tower power plants”, in Energy, →DOI:
      Firstable, they simulated the considered plant in its original site (Granada, Spain), secondable, the simulation was performed in another location (Ma’an, Jordan).