secondarysec‧ond‧a‧ry /ˈsekəndəri $ -deri/ ●●○ S3 W2 adjective 
the novel’s secondary characterssecondary to Writing was always secondary to spending time with my family.be of secondary importance/be a secondary consideration Cost is the important thing – any benefits for the user are a secondary consideration.► see thesaurus at unimportant—secondarily adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Price is the most important factor for us - location is a secondary issue.
- The government sees unemployment as a secondary issue.
- The study found that women were often reduced to secondary roles in the workplace.
- Tourism is secondary to oil revenues as a source of income.
- Free secondary education increased the pressure on space.
- Liver biopsy showed that this patient already had secondary biliary cirrhosis.
- Some accept the secondary status the discipline allocates them.
- The secondary decisions that follow become, in fact, the primary decisions.
- These six secondary ideas in chapter 1 are distilled from a detailed discussion over many pages.
THESAURUS
not important: · The exact details are unimportant.· Girls' education was seen as unimportant.
not important, or not very important. These phrases sound a little more formal than unimportant: · If you're capable of doing the job, your age is of no importance.· It's of little importance whether or not this story is true.
small and not very likely to have an important effect – used especially about changes, problems, injuries, damage, or differences: · I've made a few minor changes.· The driver suffered minor injuries.· These are just minor problems.
very unimportant and not worth worrying about or spending time on: · They had a disagreement about some trivial matter.· She tends to get upset about trivial things.
very small and unimportant, especially when compared to other things: · Her own problems seemed insignificant.· The amount of carbon they produce is relatively insignificant.
extremely small and not important – used especially about effects, amounts, differences, or risks: · So far, the program has had a negligible effect.· The difference in price is negligible.
not as important as something else: · These issues are of secondary importance.· For many women, a career is secondary to being a mother.
Longman Language Activatorless important than something else less important than the main subject, problem etc: · The government sees unemployment as a secondary issue.· The study found that women were often reduced to secondary roles in the workplace.secondary to: · Tourism is secondary to oil revenues as a source of income.
formal a subsidiary idea, question, subject etc is less important than the main one but it is connected with it: · If you take the English literature course, you can do linguistics as a subsidiary subject.subsidiary to: · The formulation of a lasting peace settlement was the main objective, and everything else was seen as subsidiary to it.
happening or existing in connection with or as a result of something else that is more important: · The Red Cross will provide money for food, housing, and incidental expenses.incidental to: · The puzzles are fun, but are incidental to the plot of the book.purely incidental: · The concert is just for fun, really. Any profit we make from it will be purely incidental.
too small and unimportant to have any useful or noticeable effect: · The difference between the two cars is marginal.· a marginal increase in sales
relating to the main activity, question, or subject, but much less important than it: · It is a society in which women's rights and concerns are still treated as peripheral.· Too much money is being spent on peripheral programs when our kids can't read or do basic math.peripheral to: · The romance was peripheral to the movie's main plot.
to be not very important compared to other things: · It's the perfect job for him - the salary is of secondary importance.· Police are increasingly regarding cannabis use as being of minor importance compared with other forms of crime.· We must stop treating mental illness as being of less importance than physical disabilities.
a subject or question that results from or is connected with the main one being considered, but is much less important: · The meeting seemed to focus on side issues, without ever really addressing the main point.· One of the side issues that arose was what to do with the old equipment when the new things arrived.
if someone's problems or achievements pale into insignificance when they are compared to something else, they are clearly much less important: · Our difficulties pale into insignificance when compared to the problems of the homeless.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Cost is the important thing – any benefits for the user are a secondary consideration.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Cost is the important thing – any benefits for the user are a secondary consideration. (=for particular ages at school)
(also high school education American English) (=for children aged between 11 and 18)· She hopes to start a teaching career in secondary education.
formal (=be less important than another thing)· Sometimes we forget that the media coverage of a sport is actually of secondary importance to the event itself.
medical (=an additional infection that happens as a result of the main illness)· Often, scratching the skin because it is itchy results in secondary infection.
(also a high school British English) (=for children from 11 to 16 or 18)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· Then it may be able to grasp the nettles of boundaries and ethos and see them as secondary.· Other variables will be included in your schedule which are referred to as secondary or intervening variables.· Doctors refer to this as secondary lactase deficiency.· It will only take a short time before non-specialist schools achieve the same status as secondary moderns.· As was suggested above, girls have been socialised into viewing work as secondary to marriage and child-rearing.· There are, however, reasons for doubting whether financial objectives were quite as secondary as these points suggest.
NOUN· Restoration of trade union immunity for certain kinds of secondary action.· The same Bill will ban the remaining forms of secondary action, and outlaw closed shop agreements altogether.
· Sadly, even information specifically stored for secondary analysis can be marred by obscurities in definition that are not easily resolved.· An example of this process is the secondary analysis of data.
· They will have an interest in knowing that the treatment technologies used in the secondary care sector are the most cost-effective available.· Goodwill can permit effective cooperation for purchasing of secondary care but goodwill is ephemeral when difficult decisions have to be made.· In considering the health care provision agencies we may usefully divide them into two main types: primary care and secondary care.· For secondary care there is a mix of public, private, and charitable hospitals.· Similarly, there are no restrictions on referrals to secondary care, although long waiting times act as a limitation in practice.· It proposes that general practitioners control funds for all primary and secondary care.· How the model will work Funds will flow through primary care to secondary care.· The budgets for primary and secondary care will need to be integrated to permit appropriate transfer of resources.
· Any benefits to the library user was a secondary consideration.· In these circumstances, historical accuracy became a strictly secondary consideration.· But the quality and quantity of the skiing to be done in these places is almost a secondary consideration.· Others want the biggest, fastest, meanest system on the block, and money is only a secondary consideration.· For some professionals price would be a secondary consideration.· If you do not earn the money, or enough of it, buying goods or services is a secondary consideration.· A secondary consideration is long term.· In his pragmatic search for a partner to fulfil a role, love and happiness were secondary considerations.
· The research is conducted by statistical analysis of secondary data on client companies and on market prices.· They deal mainly with the analysis of secondary data, rather than multi-country analysis of survey data.· These not only involved far more variables, but also secondary data sources in addition to field survey.· The use of secondary data, rather than primary data collected by the data analyst; 2.· The principal methods of investigation are the collection and analysis of secondary data, complemented by personal interviews, where necessary.· Some of these questions can be answered by analysing secondary data and others by analysing primary data. 6.
· About 600,000 people leave the secondary education system every year.· It was also important to restrict access to secondary education.· Free secondary education increased the pressure on space.· The medical school and secondary education were randomly changed so that shortlisting was not influenced by attendance at a particular school or university.· All had to prepare a Development Plan describing five years' improvement to bring about secondary education for all.· Although secondary education is compulsory, parents are not required to send their children to state schools.· Primary education is actually more complex than secondary education.
· What children gain in terms of content is surely of secondary importance.· The precise form in which the words in these languages are represented is a matter of quite secondary importance.· As far as the effects of population change on the economy are concerned, however, the particular disease is of secondary importance.· The vascular changes and muscle contraction then could be considered to be of secondary importance.· Wisdom and experience are of secondary importance in our world; it is expertise that is valued.· A feature of such organizations is that the means are all-important and the ends are of relatively secondary importance.· But inter-county rivalry will be of secondary importance for the 23-year-old World Student Games bronze medallist.· The patient quickly concludes that tablets are the real treatment and the diet of secondary importance.
· My final point is a secondary issue relating to the sample letter.· But precise length is purely a secondary issue in art music.· But he also said that the immunity of arbitrators was a secondary issue of public policy.· But economics were a secondary issue to Joyce.
· The vital secondary legislation on the benefits system has not yet been published.· I am dissatisfied with the way in which the House deals with secondary legislation.· It has the advantage of being possible through the enactment of secondary legislation.· Social security legislation by contrast is a complex web of primary and secondary legislation.
· Nor should we think that the situation is better at secondary level.· Strategies for reducing school size at the secondary level are simple and easily undertaken.· The table below shows that private and semi-official schools far outnumber state-run schools at secondary level.· Then you overlay a secondary level of complex behavior that can emerge out of that bunch of working reflexes.· This was followed by setting up of a voluntary multi-denominational school at secondary level, Lagan College, in 1981.· At the secondary level, grades seven through twelve, the need to reduce school size is even greater.· Back in the 1960s, science was taught only to a minority of children-the most academically able at secondary level.· Enrolments at both primary and secondary levels fell sharply in the early 1980s before beginning to rise steadily from 1984 onwards.
· The amount of bonds being offered for sale by securities firms in the secondary market remained low.· And the faster corporate bonds are issued, the speedier will be the development of an active secondary market.· The yield on that bond has since fallen in the secondary market to 5. 51 percent.· Most secondary market trading of eurobonds also takes place in London.· In the secondary markets, spreads on investment-grade debt were quoted one to two basis points wider.· Bonds may be bought either as new issue or second-hand on the secondary market.· In the secondary market, traders said prices of junk bonds and spreads on investment-grade debt were unchanged in extremely slow trading.
· The grammar schools and secondary moderns are similar in terms of class exclusivity.· The ideology of merit had elevated the grammar school above technical schools, technical schools above secondary moderns.· It will only take a short time before non-specialist schools achieve the same status as secondary moderns.· By 1948, in the same county, the proportion for secondary moderns had risen to three-quarters.· The grammar school still had many powerful and eloquent friends; by 1960 the secondary moderns had none.
· More pressing political problems would doubtless have necessitated the relegation of such matters to a secondary role.· These considerations adumbrate the argument for the secondary role of consent in the justification of authority.· He has been consigned to a secondary role on the Niners, and he has made a lot of it.· The town council arranged the funeral and the guild members attended in a secondary role.· To prevent women from being relegated to a secondary role.
· Secondary teachers only were included, since the case studies about which the survey seeks to generalize were of secondary schools.· By secondary school there will be several hundred.· Too rarely has it involved the specialist in the secondary school in regular discussion with primary colleagues.· The place to create equality of opportunity is birth through secondary school, not beginning at the college level.· Relatively few students reach secondary school, with a substantial proportion of these being in the Khartoum and Northern regions.· It follows the Government's move to extend the literacy and numeracy strategies from primary into secondary schools.· In 1965 members of parliament regretted that the separation of children into different types of secondary schools impeded the raising of standards.· The Yellow Paper, as the leaked document came to be called, was critical of teaching in primary and secondary schools.
· Many of the requests are for practical, technical and vocational literature for all levels, from secondary schooling upwards.· Full mixed-ability teaching, especially if it reached into the middle and later years of secondary schooling, was comparatively rare.· But this will avail us nothing unless we get primary and secondary schooling right.
· Quite a few have gone on to postgraduate teacher training to teach in the secondary sector.· Equally important as the links with the secondary sector are the links with pre-school and support services.· Moreover, in the secondary sector, it was hoped that comprehensivisation would be effective in equalising opportunities among different social groups.· These discrepancies existed in both the primary and the secondary sectors, but were especially marked in the primary.· Squeezing the primary banks simply pushed some customers into the secondary sector.· Key Stage 3 is a vital bridge between the primary school and the upper stages of the secondary sector.· The secondary sector in the Republic is hardly so simple in structure.· In the secondary sector they have a long history of influence as local employers.
· The emphasis is on interpretation and evaluation of a variety of primary and secondary source material.· Agriculture, deforestation and the other secondary sources of greenhouse gases are critical to many.· The distinction between primary and secondary sources will not always be immediately obvious to the pupil.· Scholars and researchers use the library approach when attempting to write articles for publication based on secondary sources.· Questions on data availability are likely to be particularly important where users are heavily dependent on secondary sources.· In his failure to take these differences into account, Leibniz fell victim to his reliance on secondary sources.· The effective teacher of history will need to use both primary and secondary sources.· Active enquiry is a feature of the course which places a heavy emphasis on the use of primary and secondary sources.
· To wait until their children are in the secondary stage may seem a long time for delay.· The sore of primary syphilis is followed after six to eight weeks by the development of the secondary stage.· A secondary stage follows after a few more months and manifests itself by a rash on the face and body.
· Inspectors said that secondary teachers were failing to build on the success of primary science and were not challenging their younger pupils.· In terms of feedback from the report, primary teachers seem to have had most and secondary teachers least.· It will be recalled that only secondary teachers had been involved in the survey in Solihull.· Gordon Small, one of my secondary teachers-I still see him and I copy his teaching style.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1secondary education/schooling/teaching etc the education, teaching etc of children between the ages of 11 and 16 or 182not as important as something else: - A father explained to me that he would put one of his three sons through primary and secondary education.
- All had to prepare a Development Plan describing five years' improvement to bring about secondary education for all.
- During secondary education, the use of the spoken word increases.
- Full mixed-ability teaching, especially if it reached into the middle and later years of secondary schooling, was comparatively rare.
- If you came from a poor family the only way you could get secondary education was by gaining a scholarship.
- In practice, given the monoglot tendency in secondary education it might be difficult to recruit students with the necessary competence.
- Remember that people were then leaving school at 12 or 14 and there was no secondary education available in the town.
- These differences increased during secondary education: children from lower-status occupational groups declined from their 11 plus position relative to higher groups.
the novel’s secondary characterssecondary to Writing was always secondary to spending time with my family.be of secondary importance/be a secondary consideration Cost is the important thing – any benefits for the user are a secondary consideration.► see thesaurus at unimportant—secondarily adverb