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job-shadow

job-shadow verb: to follow and watch (an employee) in order to learn the workings of the job.

Verb

job-shadow (third-person singular simple present job-shadows, present participle job-shadowing, simple past and past participle job-shadowed)

  1. To follow and watch (an employee) in order to learn the workings of the job.

Forms of job-shadow

third-person singular presentjob-shadows
present participlejob-shadowing
past participlejob-shadowed
pastjob-shadowed

Questions about job-shadow

What does job-shadow mean?
Job-shadow means to follow and watch (an employee) in order to learn the workings of the job.
What part of speech is job-shadow?
Job-shadow is a verb.
What is the past tense of job-shadow?
The past tense of job-shadow is job-shadowed.

Words near job-shadow in the dictionary

  1. job-hunted
  2. job-hunting
  3. job-hunts
  4. job-seeker
  5. job-seekers
  6. job-shadow
  7. job-shadowed
  8. job-shadowing
  9. job-shadows
  10. job-sharing
  11. job-stopper

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