work-based

Tied to employment

Work-based describes activities, programs, or learning that take place in or derive from actual employment settings rather than classrooms or simulations: work-based training, work-based learning.

The term appears frequently in education and vocational contexts, where students gain skills through internships, apprenticeships, or on-the-job experience: The program combines traditional coursework with work-based components.

employment

workplace

Employment location

corporate · vocational · workforce · salaried · nine-to-five · payroll · contractual · organizational

learning

apprenticeship

Learning trade through employment

placement · practicum · experiential · hands-on · vocational · skill-building · mentorship · shadowing · cooperative · fieldwork

assessment

performance

Carrying out a task

competency · demonstration · practical · measurable · criteria · rubric · standards · achievement · benchmarking · appraisal

benefits

healthcare

Organized provision of treatment

compensation · employer-provided · perks · allowance · subsidized · sponsored · coverage · matching · wellness · leave

Opposites
activity domain

work-basedplay-based

Centered on recreational activity

non-work · home-based · recreational · domestic · personal

institutional context

work-basedacademic

Relating to education or theory

theoretical · lecture-based · didactic · abstract · conceptual

Family

work, based, base, works, worked, working, worker, workers, workable

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G