1.TTBa bicycle built for two riders sitting one behind the other 双人自行车
2in tandemTIME/AT THE SAME TIMEdoing something together or at the same time as someone or something else 协同工作,一起工作
The two companies often work in tandem.
两家公司经常合作。
in tandem with
The group operated in tandem with local criminals.
该团体和当地的犯罪分子勾结在一起。
Examples from the Corpus
tandem with• She finally jumped in tandem with the rideoperator.• Clearly, wealth has recently moved in tandem with the savingsratio.• In 508 Theuderic continued his father's onslaught on the Gothicsouth, in tandem with the Burgundians.• The Berlin Philharmonic, founded in 1882, has grown up in tandem with the evolution of the star conductor.• Both XL and X G will vary in tandem with each other.• Cold butter will absorb less flour yet work in tandem with the flour to produce a flakycrust when baked.• It seems to him more likely though that Empire is working in tandem withexploitation.
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tandem• Branch manager Richard Fairhurst took a back seat for the day, as he rode along on the back of a tandem.• It stars Erik Estrada, who first became famous as part of the gaymotorcyclecoptandem on CHiPS.• It sort of goes in tandem with recovering from the physicalpain.• They might be read in tandem as charming examples of Horace in his most fluently cajolingmood.• The tandem of Mitchell and Bookman combined for three touchdowns.• The centre already has a cycle for the less able and two tandems used to transportdisabled and blindvisitors.
Origintandem
(1700-1800)Latin“finally, at length” (taken to mean "lengthwise", and so used for vehicles with one horse or person in front of another)