secondee

From second (“to transfer (someone) temporarily to alternative employment”, verb) +‎ -ee (suffix forming terms meaning persons or things that actions are done to).^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɪˌkɒnˈdiː/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /səˌkɑnˈdiː/
• Rhymes: -iː
• Hyphenation: sec‧ond‧ee

secondee (plural secondees)

1. (chiefly Commonwealth, UK, labour) A person who is seconded (“transferred temporarily to alternative employment”). [from 1980s].
   • 1983, R. Paul Shaw, “Manpower and Educational Shortages”, in Mobilizing Human Resources in the Arab World (Arab World Studies), London: KPI, published 1985, →ISBN, page 182:

     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.

   • 2005, Charlotte J. Wright, Rebecca A. Gallun, “Appendix A: AIPN 2002: Model Form International Operating Agreement”, in International Petroleum Accounting, Tulsa, Okla.: PennWell, →ISBN, page 436:

     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; […]

   • 2007, David Jesse Finnegan, Leslie P. Willcocks, “Tools for Investigation: Methods, Pilot Study and Frameworks”, in Implementing CRM: From Technology to Knowledge (John Wiley Series in Information Systems), Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, http://books.google.com/books?id=_g88PYwRJ-cC&pg=PA80&dq=secondees page 80:

     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.

   • 2021 December 15, Stefanie Foster, “Network News: Great British Railways: Start the Railway Reform Now”, in Rail, number 946, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7:

     [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.

• second (verb)
• secondment