tandem

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  1. noun A two-wheeled carriage drawn by horses harnessed one before the other.
  2. noun A team of carriage horses harnessed in single file.
  3. noun A tandem bicycle.
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  • Besides, what you so rightly distinguish as the tandem is the last thing the police will be expecting to find so near Gledge End, from which it disappeared. —  The Death-Cap Dancers - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 59: 1981
  • Like Belkovsky, Moscow Carnegie Center analyst Nikolai Petrov believes the key problem for the tandem is Putin's position of perceived responsibility for the crisis, but unlike Belkovsky, he sees Putin returning to the Kremlin and the dismantling of the tandem entirely: —  Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
  • The pair were attached to the same parachute in a form of skydiving known as a tandem jump, in which instructors are strapped to the backs of their students. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • I think that a Henry - Benzema tandem might be a good option. —  France World Cup Blog
  • For most of this decade, Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia-and its continuation, the Putin-Medvedev "tandem" - has promoted the view that Russia's strength and national dignity lies in rivalry rather than partnership with the West. —  Reason Magazine - All Reason Articles from the Past Year: Page 1
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  1. Latin, at last, at length; see to- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. A humorous application, prob. first in university use, from Latin tandem, at length, with reference to time, taken in the English use with reference to space, ‘at length, stretched out in a single file,’ from tam, so much, as, + -dem, a demonstrative suffix.
  2. from tandem, adv.
 

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