secondable
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]secondable (not comparable)
- Capable of being seconded.
- 1953, George Demeter, Manual of parliamentary law and procedure, page 98:
- 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).
- 2014, Jolyon Howorth, Security and Defence Policy in the European Union, →ISBN, page 103:
- The key propositions, to be achieved by 2010, were: improvement of the quality of trained personnel deployed; enhancing the availability of secondable civilian personnel;
Adverb
[edit]secondable (not comparable)
- Eggcorn of second of all.
- 1993, Luca Reddavide, The Evolution of Wealth Management: Transformation and Innovation of Robo Advisory[1], thesis submitted to Università Ca' Foscari Venezia:
- … 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 …
- 2014 December 23, Quinten Plummer, “Teens Show Thumbs Up to Instagram but Thumbs Down to Facebook”, in Tech Times:
- Secondable (see the firstable hyperlink), Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there isn't much headroom for his company's social networking site.
- 2015, Heidi Rosala, Consumer selection of vegetarian food in restaurants[2], thesis submitted to University of Jyväskylä:
- Firstable, workers who work in a close connection with pesticides like formulators, sprayers, mixers, loaders and agricultural farm workers have a big risk to expose themselves to the pesticides that harm their health. Secondable, people can expose to a number of pesticides through food
- 2020, T. E. Boukelia, A. Bouraoui, A. Laouafi, S. Djimli, Y. Kabar, “3E (Energy-Exergy-Economic) comparative study of integrating wet and dry cooling systems in solar tower power plants”, in Energy, :
- Firstable, they simulated the considered plant in its original site (Granada, Spain), secondable, the simulation was performed in another location (Ma’an, Jordan).