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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There will be cheek swabbing stations on-site in the arena for fans to join the national registry. Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 20 Dec. 2025 And there’s going to be an on-site hotel, making coming and going for nap time easy. Megan Dubois, USA Today, 20 Dec. 2025 And because there are no cars allowed on-site, residents rely heavily on Waymo, which is Google’s self-driving car concept. Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025 In low-resource settings, where molecular testing is expensive and limited, this gap is even more pronounced, making fast, on-site molecular testing especially important. Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 19 Dec. 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 25 Dec. 2025.

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