English-Polish translations for tandem

• tandem
  Panie Barroso! Właśnie powiedział pan, że chce pan pracować w tandemie z Hermanem Van Rompuyem. Mr Barroso, you have just said that you want to work in tandem with Herman Van Rompuy.
  Pracowaliśmy niejako w tandemie (ponieważ w ubiegłym roku ja byłam sprawozdawczynią), z którego to faktu wynika moja pierwsza uwaga. We have worked in tandem (me being last year's rapporteur), and that brings me to my first point.
  Dlatego też niech pan pracuje w tandemie, ale niech pan się upewni, że będzie pan siedział na przednim siedzeniu i trzymał kierownicę w dłoni. For this reason, by all means work in tandem, but please make sure that you are sitting in the front and steering the vehicle.

Definition of tandem

• A carriage pulled by two or more draught animals harnessed one behind the other, both providing the pulling power but only the animal in front able to steer.
• A group of two or more people, machines etc. working together; close collaboration
• One behind the other
• Together; working as one

Synonyms

• in tandem

Examples

• to ride tandem on a bicycle-built-for-two
• The horses were harnessed tandem.
• Their skillful tandem work made the project quick and successful.

Related words

• tandemist
• tandem chess
• tandem bicycle
• tandem bus
• tandem repeat
• in tandem
• variable number tandem repeat