Did you perhaps mean one of these? seconded, secondhand
Examples
“My Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has been an active contributor to planning activities for this conference, including a short-term secondment of an officer from our Latin America section and some financial assistance.”
“On 6 August 1945, Yamaguchi, a young engineer with the shipbuilder Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, was in Hiroshima at the end of a short-term secondment with two colleagues.”
“StaffShare allows organisations to register individuals, who could be under-utilised or at risk of redundancy, on a website offering their services on short - or medium-term secondment basis.”
“Several Air China staff are being trained by Cathay, and a long-term secondment programme for its top management is being studied.”
“I'm off (on long-term secondment actually) to work for as their Economic Development Manager.”
“The secondment, which is for an unlimited period is with effect from 01 February 2000.”
“Position yourself for a "secondment" into a different department, or even a permanent transfer, just for change of scenery.”
“Then, as it so often does, good fortune came my way in the colonial shape of a colleague of The Darling G, returning to the US after a secondment here.”
“Three days ago the Guardian's Moscow correspondent returned to Russia to resume his duties there after a period of secondment in London, where he had been working on the team assessing and organising WikiLeaks material.”
The Guardian: Press freedom: Retreat from Moscow | Editorial
“Williams, a cycling fanatic and accomplished mathematician, was on secondment from GCHQ in Cheltenham to MI6 at their headquarters in Vauxhall, on the banks of the Thames.”
The Guardian: MI6 spy Gareth Williams had no trace of drugs or poison in body
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘secondment’.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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ECON - economic policy instruments
Towards a European banking union and common economic policy. Terms still warm and crispy from the corridors of legislation (summer 2012).
umbrella fund, Basel I & II, financial transac..., Keynesian reflati..., Lamfalussy procedure, Lamfalussy process, Solvency I & II, Tobin tax, carousel sanctions, prudential oversight, redemption fund, bail-in and 489 more...
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A Nuncheon of Random Palavery
Yet another "random palavery" list of words that catch my eye or attention for whatever reason. No specific theme here.
causeuse, charientism, cheiloproclitic, phony umbrage, marathon of phony..., colpsinquanonia, concilliabule, emunction, liripip, qualtagh, hemiumbrage, umbrage-lite and 139 more...
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miscellanea
antimacassar, snootful, sessile, glagolitic, marrowsky, farrago, keel, calumny, rheum, talisman, tally, awry and 508 more...
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working list
overkill, premonition, discombobulation, golliwogs, guerilla, paraphernalia, banter, gambit, atonement, leeway, ingenuity, haberdashery and 164 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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some words I hate
serendipity, appropriate, meal, magical, cleanse, secondment, bottom
Tweets
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hernesheir I hastily prepared a speech to second or even third this word, but decided instead to snack upon sweet plantain fries dipped in a lime/cotija cheese dip. No, really. Sep 4, 2009