on-site

adverb or adjective

: at a particular place especially of business
printed on-site
on-site day care
on-site inspections
on-site parking

Examples of on-site in a Sentence

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No affordable housing units are proposed on-site. Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025 Guests can rent the house, feed goats and alpacas, and get married in the on-site chapel. Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025 The fire department used an on-site crane to lift the worker out of the tunnel. Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025 Countersnipers on-site killed shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks. Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for on-site

Word History

First Known Use

1946, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of on-site was in 1946

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“On-site.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on-site. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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