What is "on-site"

Usage examples of "on-site".

D-1- Cooch, a Canadian government ornithologist who specialized in on-site Arctic studies.

In the early months of the endeavor the Michaelites created an on-site employment agency to find work for the residents.

Paraetonium to Siwa to here, hundreds of kilometers beyond human thought or action, half a mile down, where the gigantic claw diggers had ceased their abrading, the two of us with simple pick and shovel, standing on the last thin layer of compacted dirt and rock that roofed whatever great shadowy structure lay beneath us, a shadow picked up by the most advanced deep-resonance-response readings, verified on-site by proton free-precession magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar brought in from the Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States.

Mission Convert Lamplight into a food-growing and processing plant capable of feeding the entire Plutonian permanent and transit populations, and on-site personnel at the Logistics Depot and the Terminals Construction Site.

Roland was responsible for everything on-site, and that included little things like the setup of each preassembled mobile home that had been constructed to specifications in the U.

The law allows limited on-site disposal of lumber, tree stumps and nonhazardous construction materials, but some builders bury all sorts of nasty stuff.

As the White Castle chain continued to grow, Lloyd Ray's construction department became an increasingly busy and steadily growing division of the company, responsible for ongoing research and development, on-site construction of the Castles, and regular upkeep and renovations.

Despite the tentative agreement in principle for on-site inspection, the main effort of verifying compliance on an agreement would lie with the spy satellites.

More serious, according to Lane, was the burning of the on-site office, which contained time sheets, work records, and ninety percent of the company's cost accounting records over the last three months.

And now that they were all on-site, while he was distant, he was also completely cooperative, and his behavior in no way differed from his behavior on previous digs.

Wherever possible, they prefer on-site intelligence over electronic surveillance.

As with other on-site emergency services, this person, who would have been trained and qualified to recognize discernible and professionally recognized signs that might precede a suicide attempt, would consult with a supervisor, and exercise his/her judgment in getting the person-in-distress ASAP to professional help.

The boy, now, he might help us if we keep him on-site and with Margolies, a man intimately familiar with Metaxos's work.

And, finally, we had on-site supervisors who were responsible for spot-checking the footings after they were in.

Even before it was airborne, he pulled the portable computer onto his lap, plugged in a diskette handed to him by the pilot, and began checking the equipment that was already on the StarLifter, from the weapons to clothing and uniforms of what were considered powder-keg foreign nations, countries where on-site intelligence might be necessary on short notice: China, Russia, and several Middle Eastern and Latin American nations.