IN ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in on mean? 

• IN ON (adverb)
  The adverb IN ON has 1 sense:

1. participating in or knowledgeable out

  Familiarity information: IN ON used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN ON (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Participating in or knowledgeable out

Context example:

was in on the scheme

 Context examples 

I tried to break in on the man’s morbid thoughts by calling him away, but he smiled sadly at me and refused to obey.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

To address this issue, the team focused in on dopamine.

(Electroacupuncture Reduces Sepsis in Mice, NIH)

Another change in my patient. At five o'clock I looked in on him, and found him seemingly as happy and contented as he used to be.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Invitations to dinner poured in on Martin; and the more they poured, the more he puzzled.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Spitzer's observations in infrared light zeroed in on carbon monoxide in the ultrahot Jupiters' atmospheres.

(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)

"We'll play fair," Madge began, but Skiff Miller broke in on her assurances.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

There’s Moorhouse, first reserve, but he is trained as a half, and he always edges right in on to the scrum instead of keeping out on the touchline.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“We shall look in on our way to the train,” answered Holmes.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The scientists then zeroed in on the locations of those alleles in the tomato genome.

(Scientists develop genetic path to tastier tomatoes, NSF)

Buck had sprung in on the instant; and at the end of three hundred yards, amid a mad swirl of water, he overhauled Thornton.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)