secondee

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See also: secondée

English

Etymology

second +‎ -ee

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /səkɒnˈdiː/
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Noun

secondee (plural secondees)

  1. A person who is transferred temporarily to alternative employment, or seconded.
    • 1983, R. Paul Shaw, Mobilizing human resources in the Arab world, Routledge, →ISBN, page 182:
      At the very least, the government should consider restricting the emigration of skilled people who are in short supply and extend its monitoring system to include emigrating graduates of vocational and higher institutes, as well as government secondees and people officially contracted to work abroad.
    • 2005, Charlotte J. Wright, Rebecca A. Gallun, International Petroleum Accounting, PennWell Books, →ISBN, page 436:
      Operator shall engage or retain only such employees, secondees, contractors, consultants and agents as are reasonably necessary to conduct Joint Operations.
    • 2007, David Jesse Finnegan, Leslie P. Willcocks, Implementing CRM: From Technology to Knowledge, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, page 80:
      In the above situation secondees from the back-offices were put in the contact centre environment, however their knowledge was not exploited to complement and enhance the quality of the end-user training.
    • 2021 December 15, Stefanie Foster, “Network News: Great British Railways: start the railway reform now”, in RAIL, number 946, page 7:
      Haines pointed out that GBR in fact has a team of about 50 people currently, while Hendy was quick to refute the Telegraph's claim: "The vast majority [of GBR employees] are secondees from other parts of the railway. There aren't 200 people just being recruited to set up some monolithic organisation. There's a whole range of secondees from all over the place.

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