secondment
C1CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The temporary transfer of an employee to another department, employer, or role for a fixed period.
Her three-month secondment to the Brussels office counted towards her continuous employment for redundancy purposes.
Business noun
A temporary transfer of an employee to another department or organization.
She's on a six-month secondment to the Singapore office to stand up the new team.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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