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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
on-the-job
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
on-the-job training (=while doing a job rather than in a classroom)
▪ On-the-job training was seen as more important than formal education.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
training
▪ After that students go off to vocational and on-the-job training.
▪ Lin came to Britain to train as a nurse, which is on-the-job training and salaried.
▪ Professional advice and on-the-job training was provided to two field parties working on late Proterozoic volcanic-ophiolite-granite rocks in the South-eastern desert.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
on-the-job training
Wiktionary
on-the-job

a. (context of training English) obtained whilst working

WordNet
on-the-job

adj. relating to or associated with a job or employment; "on-the-job training"; "on-the-job requirements"

Usage examples of "on-the-job".

Since on-the-job stress was not a recognized factor, the Postal Service did nothing to prevent its managers from conducting work speedups or bullying workers to increase productivity.

The nonideologically involved Teamsters want to prove their on-the-job mettle by working for wages that anticapitalists spurn.

Clatterman promptly announced that he really didn't know diddly-shit about the cryptographic machine when he came aboard, and that despite Chief Schultz's on-the-job training on the voyage, he was still baffled by most of what he was supposed to do.

On-the-job relationships frequently overlap friendships, and less often, neighbor relationships.

Still, Holman wasn't the first tank driver to get on-the-job training in a crisis.

Still, Holman wasnt the first tank driver to get on-the-job training in a crisis.