in-service
in-service adjective: taking place when one is an employee.
Adjective
in-service (not comparable)
- Taking 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
- Relating to or being a full-time] employee.
- We offer both in-service and full-time employee training.
Verb
in-service (third-person singular simple present in-services, present participle in-servicing, simple past and past participle in-serviced)
- To 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.
- 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
Forms of in-service
| third-person singular present | in-services |
|---|---|
| present participle | in-servicing |
| past participle | in-serviced |
| past | in-serviced |
Words formed from in-service
Questions about in-service
- What does in-service mean?
- In-service means taking place when one is an employee.
- What part of speech is in-service?
- In-service can be an adjective or a verb.
Words near in-service in the dictionary
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