secondment
noun/sɪˈkɒndmənt/
/sɪˈkɑːndmənt/
[uncountable, countable] (British English)- a short period of time when an employee is sent to another department, office, etc. in order to do a different job
- on secondment They met while she was on secondment from the Foreign Office.
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