The phrase "sent on secondment" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used when an employee is temporarily assigned to work for another company or organization for a specific period of time. Example: "After working at our company for three years, John was sent on secondment to our international branch in Japan for a year to gain new skills and experience."
To ensure transfer of the latest design knowledge to Japan more than 100 technical specialists were sent on 18 months secondments from Japan to Vickers during the construction phase of the Kongō.
Planning is key to a successful secondment: Before someone undertakes a secondment the organisation needs to be clear why they are sending one of their executives out on secondment – if it is to acquire or augment a new skill then what are they going to do ensure that the individual comes back to a role that will utilise these skills.
This sent Rebus south to London, on secondment to a murder enquiry in which the killer takes a bite out of his unfortunate victims.
He left West Africa in January 1899, after a successful posting, but in ill-health; a third of the officers sent with him had died while on secondment, and Blackader had contracted malaria as well as suffering an attack of dysentery.
Why did I not try to contact US authorities to say, 'Send urgently an aircraft to evacuate a US citizen on secondment to UN who is dying of kidney failure?'" Julian was left in Ndola for five days.
But playing distractedly and badly is a terrible option from all standpoints.For years, Whitehall has sent its most smoothly devious officials to serve at the British representation to the EU, or on secondment to EU institutions.
The chief minister, Patrick Leclercq - one of the many officials who administer the principality on secondment from French ministries - said: "Both these reports contain numerous mistakes and incomprehensible inexactitudes.
It's an approach he saw in action on secondment to British Steel in the 1990s and one he has practised ever since.
It was on one of these projects that she met Charlotte Cole, then on secondment from Deloitte and an expert in auditing, accounting and corporate finance.
