Meanings
- One behind the other.
The seats were in tandem.
- Together; collaboratively.
He runs the shop in tandem with his brother.
2 more examples
In countries such as the US, bird-feeding, birdwatching, and other types of ornithophilic behaviour form the basis of huge conservation efforts, in tandem with science.
2010, Mark Bonta, “Ethno-ornithology and Biological Conservation”, in Sonia Tidemann, Andrew Gosler, editors, Ethno-ornithology: Birds, Indigenous Peoples, Culture and Society, London: Earthscan, →ISBN, pages 21–22Investors were now warier of Underground railways. They had seen that the Metropolitan was bringing in lower returns, having broached its City extensions. But the newly established Metropolitan Board of Works (the first London-wide authority) pressed the District to continue with the next part of the plan - Westminster to Blackfriars - so that the building of the railway could go in tandem with the construction of the new Thames Embankment and the sewer it incorporated.
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 61
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbone behind the other
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Bulgarian в тандем
- в тандемTranslations
Polish jednocześnie, równocześnie
- jednocześnieTranslations
- równocześnieTranslations
- wspólnieTranslations
Spanish en tándem, en conjunto
- en tándemTranslations
- en conjuntoTranslations
- conjuntamenteTranslations
Cite this entry
in tandem. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20tandem
“in tandem.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20tandem. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “in tandem,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20tandem.
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