Drivers commonly perform secondary tasks while behind the wheel to navigate or communicate with others, which has led to a significant increase in the number of injuries and fatalities attributed to distracted driving. (sciencedaily.com)
Your work no doubt has secondary tasks too, such as dotting your ethical i's, keeping track of communications and project status updates, and giving that report or proposal a final design polish. (inc.com)
Objective — To make an effective elected second chamber, composed of mature experienced individuals with collective experience of all aspects of British life, whose principal task is to improve legislative bills during their passage through parliament into law, and whose secondary task is to scrutinize the actions of the government and act as a watchdog for the rights of the British people, should the Government or lower house appear to act in such a way as to undermine these rights. (dprvoting.org)