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job-shadowing

job-shadowing is the present participle and gerund of job-shadow.

Meaning of job-shadow

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.

Questions about job-shadowing

What is job-shadowing the present participle and gerund of?
Job-shadowing is the present participle and gerund of job-shadow.

Words near job-shadowing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: job-shadowing (page history and authors); job-shadow (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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