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on-the-job
[ on-thuh-job, awn- ]
adjective
- done, received, or happening while in actual performance of one's work:
on-the-job training.
Word History and Origins
Origin of on-the-job1
Example Sentences
With the right person in the right job, the need for on-the-job support is diminished.
That means more on-the-job training, and more apprenticeships that set a young worker on an upward trajectory for life.
In the process, we've shut down other, traditional sources of mobility, like on-the-job experience.
Human capital, for example, is built through public education, private education, and on-the-job training in the private sector.
More to the point, the army of ex-Clinton staffers were the ones who wouldn't need on-the-job training.
On-the-job training, however, does provide a means for mobility within the industrial labor force.
Few workers have professional school training; most acquire their skills through short courses or on-the-job training.
They found the on-the-job engineering office for the ship in a small dome half a mile from the construction dock.
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.
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