Meanings
- UKnot comparableTaking place when one is an employee.
To sensitize their staffs, ASOs can offer in-service trainings about incest and its impact on unsafe sex and other high-risk behavior, both to professionals and to peer-educators.
1991 December 8, Liz Galst, “Gay Male Incest Survivors, Safer Sex, and AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 21, page 10 - not comparableRelating to or being a full-time employee.
We offer both in-service and full-time employee training.
present singular third person in-services · participle present in-servicing · participle past in-serviced · past in-serviced
- transitiveTo train or educate (someone) while they are working; to give on-the-job training to.
She spends most of her time in-servicing teachers in helping struggling students.
1 more example
Nor are reflection and dialogue possible when someone in-services and someone else is in-serviced.
1994, Thomas J. Sergiovanni, Building Community in Schools, page 154
Translations
French en service
- en servicetaking place when one is an employee
Polish odbywający się w trakcie pracy, szkolić w trakcie pracy
- odbywający się w trakcie pracytaking place when one is an employee
- szkolić w trakcie pracyto give "on-the-job" training
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