field work
noun
an investigation or search for material, data, etc, made in the field as opposed to the classroom, laboratory, or official headquarters
field worker
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a word derived from
field work.
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A retired commercial shrimper and oil field worker whose wife drives a school bus, Miller fears having to leave his lifetime home.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
We have a field worker in Gaza who has been an incredible asset in enabling us to do that level of reliable research in Gaza.
From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2024
His grandfather, a field worker from Mexicali, survived the 1974 crash of a farm laborer bus that plunged into an irrigation canal near Blythe, killing 19.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2024
Recently, Prof. Sitaridou started field working in a new site, Tonya, where no other field worker has ever reached, only to reveal significant grammatical variation between the valleys indicating different Islamisation onset.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2024
Jethro, because he was now a field worker, was allowed to eat at the first table with his parents and elder brothers.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
I would wear the blue overalls of the field-worker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati tea-glasses.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Only Marta wasn’t a poor field-worker like the rest of us.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
As we drove into Freetown, the field-worker introduced himself: “My name is Leslie, it is a pleasure to meet you gentlemen.”
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
Water never touches their bodies; tight-lacing is a female rule in even the peasant class; the field-worker is as tightly cased in her leather stays as the duchess in her satin corset.
From Critical Studies by Ouida
My children soon married, and I would not be a burden to them; so I came East for a while, and settled down quite unexpectedly into a place as a field-worker for a child-labour committee.
From Sylvia's Marriage by Upton Sinclair
