on the job

Speech parts

1. on the job - Adjective

2. on the job - Phrase

3. on the job - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

actively engaged in paid work

relating to or associated with a job or employment

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

on-the-job

Synonyms

working work site active activity employed job engaged occupied busy energetic alert lively operative shipyard
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Antonyms

off free unemployed idle inactive lazy
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Examples

And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you. Edwin Lefèvre

The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward. Ben Carson

Non-criminal sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for the virtuous woman except in the rarest of cases. Phyllis Schlafly

In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went to college for - it was really more of a trade. You had a lot of guys who came up working in newspapers at the copy desk, or delivery boys, and then they would somehow become reporters afterward and learn on the job. Matt Taibbi

The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job. In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community. Peter Drucker

It takes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on the job. American Proverb

Words in the phrase

on the job

Close letter words and terms

on the instant on the international stage on the jar on the journey on the jump on the jungle telegraph