"on site" meaning in English

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Prepositional phrase

Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} on site, {{en-PP}} on site
  1. At the site of a job, or at the location of the customer of a product or service, as opposed to at the vendor's factory or office. Synonyms: on the premises Related terms: in situ, on sight, onsight Translations (at a job site): asiakkaan tiloissa (Finnish), asennuspaikalla (Finnish), työmaalla (Finnish), sur place (French), vor Ort (German)
    Sense id: en-on_site-en-prep_phrase-K66O0GPk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Finnish links with redundant wikilinks

Download JSON data for on site meaning in English (1.9kB)

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          "sense": "at a job site",
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      "word": "asennuspaikalla"
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      "sense": "at a job site",
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