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secondable

secondable adjective: capable of being seconded.

Adjective

secondable (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being seconded.
    • The second motion, to adjourn, is secondable and requires a majority vote, but is not debatable or amendable, and cannot be reconsidered (no D, A or R shown).1953, George Demeter, Manual of parliamentary law and procedure, page 98
    • The key propositions, to be achieved by 2010, were: improvement of the quality of trained personnel deployed; enhancing the availability of secondable civilian personnel;2014, Jolyon Howorth, Security and Defence Policy in the European Union, →ISBN, page 103

Adverb

secondable (not comparable)

  1. Eggcorn of second of all.
    • … two main reasons. Firstly, as the wealth increases the complexity of its administration increments as well, making compulsory the support of a professional; secondable, since the cost structure is usually linked with the assets under management, they …1993, Luca Reddavide, The Evolution of Wealth Management: Transformation and Innovation of Robo Advisory, thesis submitted to Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
    • Secondable (see the firstable hyperlink), Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there isn't much headroom for his company's social networking site.2014 December 23, Quinten Plummer, “Teens Show Thumbs Up to Instagram but Thumbs Down to Facebook”, in Tech Times

Examples of secondable in a sentence

  • Secondable, people can expose to a number of pesticides through food2015, Heidi Rosala, Consumer selection of vegetarian food in restaurants, thesis submitted to University of Jyväskylä:
  • Firstable, they simulated the considered plant in its original site (Granada, Spain), secondable, the simulation was performed in another location (Ma’an, Jordan).2020, T. E. Boukelia, A. Bouraoui, A. Laouafi, S. Djimli, Y. Kabar, “3E (Energy-Exergy-Economic) comparative study of integrating wet and...

Origin of secondable

From second + -able.

Questions about secondable

What does secondable mean?
Secondable means capable of being seconded.
How do you use secondable in a sentence?
Secondable, people can expose to a number of pesticides through food
What part of speech is secondable?
Secondable can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near secondable in the dictionary

  1. second-teamers
  2. second-to-last
  3. second-wave feminism
  4. second-waver
  5. second-wavers
  6. secondable
  7. secondaries
  8. secondarily
  9. secondariness
  10. secondary
  11. secondary accent

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