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/sɪˌkɒnˈdiː/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/səˌkɑnˈdiː/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
Noun
A person who is seconded (“transferred temporarily to alternative employment”). .
Usage- Commonwealth usage
- UK usage
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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.
Operator shall engage or retain only such employees, Secondees, contractors, consultants and agents as are reasonably necessary to conduct Joint Operations. For the purposes of this Article 4.3, "Secondee" means an employee of a Non-Operator (or its Affiliate) who is seconded to Operator to provide services under a secondment agreement to be negotiated and entered into between Operator and such Non-Operator; […]
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.
[Andrew] Haines pointed out that GBR [Great British Railways] in fact has a team of about 50 people currently, while [Peter] 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.