On The Job (Adjective)
Meaning
Actively engaged in paid work; "the working population"; "the ratio of working men to unemployed"; "a working mother"; "robots can be on the job day and night".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The employees who were on the job during the holiday were given extra pay for their hard work.
- Her mother was on the job as a nurse when she took care of her at the hospital.
- One advantage of using machines is that they can be on the job day and night without a break.
- While on the job as a researcher, she discovered a cure for the disease that had been affecting many people.
- He needed the full concentration of the on the job engineers to fix the defective equipment before the launch.