- a bicycle for two riders, one behind the otherTopics Transport by car or lorryc2, Sports: other sportsc2Word Originlate 18th cent.: humorously from Latin, literally ‘at length’.
Idioms
See tandem in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee tandem in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishin tandem (with somebody/something)
- if somebody/something works or happens in tandem with somebody/something else, they work together or happen at the same time
- The two systems are designed to work in tandem.
- Two designers worked in tandem on the plans.
- Stock prices pushed sharply higher this afternoon in tandem with a rise in the dollar.
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