0 past simple and past participle of second
1 to make a formal statement of support for a suggestion made by someone else during a meeting so that there can be a discussion or vote:
2 to send an employee to work somewhere else temporarily, either to increase the number of workers or to replace other workers, or to exchange experience or skills:
His father, anxious to see his son properly married, seconded the offer.
The motion was duly seconded and passed unanimously.
In many cases, these organizations act as repositories for both seconded and retired bureaucrats from their sponsoring ministry.
He also expected a steady inflow into the civil service of graduates in economics, some of whom could be seconded to the staff of economists.
In the early stages, training was in the hands of the planters and miners themselves and officers seconded from the civil government.
As agreeableness seconded merit in persons, so ornament seconded utility in things.
One-fifth of respondents were interested in being seconded to a research team.
While the courtesy commonplace said that agreeableness seconded merit, it made clear that agreeableness was what actuated merit : without agreeableness, merit was sterile, unpersuasive, and ineffective.
