on-the-job

[ on-thuh-job, awn- ]

adjective
  1. done, received, or happening while in actual performance of one's work: on-the-job training.

Origin of on-the-job

1
First recorded in 1935–40

Words Nearby on-the-job

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How to use on-the-job in a sentence

  • on-the-job training, however, does provide a means for mobility within the industrial labor force.

    Area Handbook for Romania | Eugene K. Keefe, Donald W. Bernier, Lyle E. Brenneman, William Giloane, James M. Moore, and Neda A. Walpole
  • Few workers have professional school training; most acquire their skills through short courses or on-the-job training.

    Area Handbook for Romania | Eugene K. Keefe, Donald W. Bernier, Lyle E. Brenneman, William Giloane, James M. Moore, and Neda A. Walpole
  • They found the on-the-job engineering office for the ship in a small dome half a mile from the construction dock.

    The Cosmic Computer | Henry Beam Piper
  • It's just on-the-job training—you go out with old officers and learn how to dust for prints and take pictures and fingerprints.

    Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

Other Idioms and Phrases with on-the-job

on-the-job

At work, busy, as in We've got three men on the job. [Late 1800s]

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