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What (who) is Secondary - definition
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Secondaries (disambiguation); Secondary (disambiguation); 2ndary; Secondaries
secondary
1.
If you describe something as secondary, you mean that it is less important than something else.
The street erupted in a huge explosion, with secondary explosions in the adjoining buildings...
The actual damage to the brain cells is secondary to the damage caused to the blood supply.
ADJ: usu ADJ n, also v-link ADJ to n
2.
Secondary diseases or infections happen as a result of another disease or infection that has already happened.
He had kidney cancer, with secondary tumours in the brain and lungs.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
3.
Secondary education is given to pupils between the ages of 11 or 12 and 17 or 18.
Examinations for the GCSE are taken after about five years of secondary education.
ADJ
secondary
I. a.
Subordinate, inferior, minor.
II. n.
Deputy, delegate, proxy.
secondary
¦ adjective
1. coming after, less important than, or resulting from something primary.
2. relating to education for children from the age of eleven to sixteen or eighteen.
3. of or denoting the output side of a transformer or other inductive device.
4. Chemistry (of an organic compound) having its functional group on a carbon atom bonded to two other carbon atoms.
derived from ammonia by replacement of two hydrogen atoms by organic groups.
5. (Secondary) Geology former term for Mesozoic.
6. (of a cell or battery) having a reversible chemical reaction and therefore able to store energy.
Derivatives
secondarily adverb
secondariness noun
Examples of use of Secondary
1. "Most people recognize that their secondary job is secondary.
2. Hajah, secondary school teacher, Baghdad, 1230 LOCAL TIME (0830GMT) I am a secondary school English teacher.
3. It has already been implemented at Al–Jazirah Secondary for Boys and the Eighth Secondary for Girls in Sakaka.
4. John Dunford, the general secretary of the Secondary Heads Association, said: "The reform agenda for secondary schools is dangerously overloaded.
5. Every grammar school condemns the three or four secondary schools around it to the level of the old secondary moderns.