on the job

1. 1.

   actively engaged in paid work

   “the working population”

   “the ratio of working men to unemployed”

   “a working mother”

   “robots can be on the job day and night”

   Synonymsworking

   Similaremployed

Questions about on the job

What does on the job mean?

on the job means "actively engaged in paid work".

What is another word for on the job?

Close synonyms include working. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is on the job a common word?

on the job is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.