SECONDMENT

secondment

(noun) the detachment of a person from their regular organization for temporary assignment elsewhere

second, secondment, endorsement, indorsement

(noun) a speech seconding a motion; “do I hear a second?”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

secondment (countable and uncountable, plural secondments)

The process or state of being seconded, the temporary transfer of a person from their normal duty to another assignment.

Anagrams

• condemnest

Source: Wiktionary



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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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