Usually means: Pairs working together in coordination.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word tandems:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. tandems: Merriam-Webster
  2. tandems: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tandems: Vocabulary.com
  4. Tandem's, tandems: Wordnik
  5. tandems: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tandems: Wiktionary
  7. tandems: Dictionary.com
  8. tandems: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. tandems: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tandems: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tandems: Encyclopedia

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tandems: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
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(Note: See tandem as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tandem)

noun:  (countable) A carriage pulled by two or more draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other, both providing pulling power but only the animal in front being able to steer.
noun:  (by extension, countable)
noun:  Two draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other.
noun:  A thing with two components arranged one behind the other.
noun:  (medicine) A hollow metal tube containing radioactive material, inserted through the vagina into the uterus to treat gynecological cancer.
noun:  (figurative)
noun:  (countable) A group of two or more machines, people, etc., working together; hence (uncountable), close collaboration.
noun:  (uncountable, education) A method of language learning based on mutual exchange, where ideally each learner is a native speaker in the language the other person wants to learn.
adverb:  One behind the other; in single file.
adverb:  (figurative) In close collaboration; collaboratively, cooperatively.
adjective:  With two components arranged one behind the other.
adjective:  (figurative) Working together collaboratively; collaborative, cooperative.
verb:  (ambitransitive) Synonym of tandemize (“(transitive) to harness or drive (two draught animals, generally draught horses) one behind the other; to set up (two or more things, such as pieces or equipment) to work in tandem or together; (intransitive) to drive a tandem (‘carriage pulled by two or more draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other’)”)
noun:  (specifically, cycling) Short for tandem bicycle (“a bicycle or tricycle in which two people sit one behind the other, both able to pedal but only the person in front being able to steer”). [(cycling) A bicycle or tricycle in which two people sit one behind the other, both able to pedal but only the person in front being able to steer.]
▸ Also see tandem





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