on the job (Englisch) Bearbeiten

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on the job

Worttrennung:

on the job

Aussprache:

IPA: []
Hörbeispiele:   on the job (australisch) (Info)

Bedeutungen:

[1] während der Arbeitszeit, bei der Arbeit, am Arbeitsplatz; arbeitend
[2] (übertragen, besonders amerikanisch:) aufmerksam

Synonyme:

[1] on-the-job
[2] on the ball

Sinnverwandte Wörter:

[2] on it, on top of it

Beispiele:

[1] He qualified for disability insurance because the accident occurred while he was on the job.
[1] She received on the job training.
[1] They were on the job seven days a week, from the crack of dawn until dusk, in steaming tropics where the thermometer climbed to 140 degrees in the sun. And they finished the job on time.[1]
[2] Within the school district, the incident outraged some parents, while others were either indifferent or actually relieved that the local police were on the job against drugs.[2]

Übersetzungen Bearbeiten

[1, 2] dict.cc Englisch-Deutsch, Stichwort: „on+the+job
[2] Dictionary.com Englisch-Englisches Wörterbuch, Thesaurus und Enzyklopädie „on the job
[2] The Free Dictionary on the job

Quellen:

  1. Seabees can do it (Januar 1944), in Popular Science, 144. Band, 1. Ausgabe, Seite 55
  2. James Fisher, Swat Madness and the Militarization of the American Police (2010), Seite 125