in-service

See also: in service and inservice

English

Adjective

in-service (not comparable)

1. (chiefly British, of training etc.) Taking place when one is an employee.
   • 1991 December 8, Liz Galst, “Gay Male Incest Survivors, Safer Sex, and AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 21, page 10:

     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.

2. Relating to or being a full-time employee.

   We offer both in-service and full-time employee training.

Derived terms

• INSET day
• ISE

Translations

taking place when one is an employee

• Armenian: վերապատրաստման (verapatrastman) (of training)
• French: en service (fr)

See also

• teacher workday

Verb

in-service (third-person singular simple present in-services, present participle in-servicing, simple past and past participle in-serviced)

1. (transitive) 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.

   • 1994, Thomas J. Sergiovanni, Building Community in Schools, page 154:

     Nor are reflection and dialogue possible when someone in-services and someone else is in-serviced.

Translations

to give "on-the-job" training

• Armenian: վերապատրաստել (hy) (verapatrastel)