secondee
Temporarily transferred employee
A secondee is someone temporarily transferred to another position, department, or organization while remaining employed by their original employer.
The term comes from the verb second (with stress on the second syllable), meaning to assign temporarily: The company sent her as a secondee to their Tokyo office for six months.
Common in British corporate and government contexts.
Hired organizational member
- workerPerson who toils
- staffOrganization's workers collectively
- assigneeRecipient of transferred rights
- appointeePerson named to position
trainee · intern · learner · professional · specialist · representative · delegate · contributor
Putting somewhere specific
- postingPublishing content online
- transferMove between locations
- rotationTurning on an axis
- loanBorrowed money repaid later
detachment · relocation · deployment · attachment · temporary · stint · term · appointment
Reciprocal transfer between parties
- collaborationJoint intellectual work
- partnershipShared business arrangement
- knowledge transferConveying expertise to others
- skill sharingExchanging abilities between people
cross-training · exposure · networking · experience · development · opportunity · mutual benefit · cooperation
employee
Hired organizational member
- workerPerson who toils
- staffOrganization's workers collectively
- assigneeRecipient of transferred rights
appointee · trainee · intern · learner · professional · specialist · representative · delegate · contributor · participant
placement
Putting somewhere specific
loan · detachment · relocation · deployment · attachment · temporary · stint · term · appointment · arrangement
interchange
Reciprocal transfer between parties
- collaborationJoint intellectual work
- partnershipShared business arrangement
- knowledge transferConveying expertise to others
skill sharing · cross-training · exposure · networking · experience · development · opportunity · mutual benefit · cooperation · best practices
- just a secondRequest for brief patience
- one secondMomentary delay request
- second thoughtsDoubts after deciding
- second chanceRenewed opportunity after failure
- split secondInfinitesimal unit of time
- second natureDeeply ingrained tendency
second, secondary, secondly, seconded, secondarily, seconder, secondment, secondariness, secondees