0 someone who makes a formal statement of support for a suggestion made by someone else during a meeting, so that there can be a discussion or vote:
1 a person who seconds a motion (= official suggestion made at a meeting) so there can be a discussion or vote:
We need a proposer and seconder for each nomination to the committee.
We have a motion proposed by Mr Connon. Is there a seconder?
The names of the proposer and seconder will not be published and will remain confidential to the scrutineers.
Only corporate members may participate in elections, either as candidate, proposer, seconder or voter.
All the candidates had to be nominated with proposers and seconders and they all have election agents.
But the resolution failed, as there was no seconder.
The praise which is by custom lavished upon the opener and seconder is therefore never insincere and practically never undeserved.
He did in fact receive the necessary support of 10 electors, a proposer and seconder and eight assentors.
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