Definition of "on-the-job" []

• Acquired or learned while working at a job: on-the-job training. (adjective)

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• "The payments were made related to "seven events, so-called on-the-job training" between 2000 and 2007, the prosecutor's office said."
• ""It's been kind of on-the-job training, assisted by the sheriffs," he said."
• "If we look at it from a jobs perspective, 70 percent of United States jobs require only on-the-job training, 10 percent require technical training, and 20 percent require a college education."