tandem

in tandem

Occurring or acting simultaneously or in conjunction. The tax changes are coming into effect in tandem with several relief schemes for lower-income families. The director worked in tandem with numerous psychologists to faithfully portray dissociative identity disorder. My wife and I illustrate and write our books in tandem.

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in tandem with (someone or something)

Occurring or acting simultaneously or in conjunction with someone or something else. The tax changes are coming into effect in tandem with several relief schemes for lower-income families. The director worked in tandem with numerous psychologists to faithfully portray dissociative identity disorder. It would fantastic if morning sickness didn't occur in sympathy with pregnancy, but alas.

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work in tandem (with someone or something)

To occur simultaneously and function in conjunction with someone or something else. The tax changes are meant to work in tandem with several existing relief schemes for lower-income families. My wife and I work in tandem to finish each book. She completes each illustration as I write the story. The director worked in tandem with numerous psychologists to faithfully portray dissociative identity disorder.

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in tandem

[of two or more things] in single file. We marched to the door in tandem. They rode along in tandem.

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in tandem

1 one behind another. 2 alongside each other; together.

The Latin word tandem means ‘at length’: it was originally used in English as a term for a carriage drawn by two horses harnessed one in front of the other. Sense 1 preserves this late 18th-century sense, but since the mid 20th century the phrase has been commonly used to mean simply ‘functioning as a team’.

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in ˈtandem (with somebody/something)

together (with somebody/something); at the same time (as somebody/something): These two computers are designed to work in tandem. ♢ She runs the business in tandem with her husband.

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