Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - secondary

~ adj 1 secondary education/schooling/teaching etc the education, teaching etc of children between the ages of 11 and 16 2 not as important or urgent as something else  (a secondary role | be of secondary importance/be a secondary consideration)  (Getting there's the main thing - how we get there is a secondary consideration. | be secondary to)  (Social skills shouldn't necessarily be seen as secondary to academic achievement.) 3 coming after or developing from something else of the same type  (The danger isn't from the disease itself, but from secondary infections that might occur.) - secondarily adv