Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

in-service

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: 5.48 in modern English

Syllables: in--ser-vice
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Taking place when one is an employee.

British usage

adj

Relating to or being a full-time] employee.

verb

To train or educate (someone) while they are working; to give on-the-job training to.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

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

Usage

British usage
Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

in-services (present, singular) in-servicing (participle, present) in-serviced (participle, past) in-serviced (past)

Derived Forms

ISE

Phrases

INSET day teacher workday

Frequently Paired Words

teacher workday

Questions

What does in-service mean?: Taking place when one is an employee.

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