secondable
English
Etymology
second + -able
Adjective
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;
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Adverb
secondable (not comparable)
- Second of all; secondly
- 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.
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