secondary
The function of a baseboard is to cover the joint between the wall and the floor, and secondarily to protect the wall from scuffing.
The initiative is intended to keep more firefighters on the job, doing their jobs well and, secondarily, to save the city money.
By this time many other people would be secondarily infected, and a full‐scale epidemic could occur.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Of little or less importance
be in/under someone's shadowidiom
be neither here nor thereidiom
big deal
biggie
derisory
marginal
meaningless
meaninglessly
meaninglessness
mere
picayune
picture
piddling
piddly
piffling
unserious
unseriousness
venial
vestigial
vestigially

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secondarily | Business English

secondarily
adverb
uk /ˌsekənˈdeərəli/us
in a way that is less important than something else:
For these companies, energy conservation is primarily about saving money and only secondarily about saving the planet.

Examples of secondarily

secondarily
This is because vowels in both primarily and secondarily stressed syllables are rendered strong and not weakened.
Early banks concentrated foremost on liquidity and secondarily on economic development.
Utterance boundaries were based primarily on intonation contour and secondarily on pause duration.
Utterance boundaries were based primarily on intonation contour and, secondarily, on pause duration.
Insofar as we think of ourselves primarily as persons or as human beings and only secondarily as citizens, the institutional account of authority is unavailable.
The emergent complex constellations of affective states and internal representations of experiences are primarily affective in nature and only secondarily ideational.
If the original material was flat bone or invertebrate shell, it is secondarily reduced into shapes more closely resembling the final product.
Secondarily, the environmental preservation of the museum's collections required these services.
This increase is due primarily to converting to new, more expensive drugs and only secondarily to increased volume and higher prices.
Bone perforators were secondarily finished in ways suitable for the task at hand but were not created from raw bone cores.
The myocardial volume of the right ventricle is increasing secondarily to reach similar values only around the time of septation.
Utterance boundaries were based primarily on intonation contour, and secondarily on pause duration.
Some have envisioned an agriculture where farmers are primarily managers of rural landscapes and only secondarily as producers of food and fiber37.
Of a total of 76 coils delivered, 4 coils (5%) secondarily migrated after release from the catheter, mostly to branches of the pulmonary arteries.
The subject is the individual that secondarily experienced or understood the emotion/state of the object, through empathy.
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