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.
Example Sentences
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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
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
With her husband, oil field worker Jayson Boebert, she started Shooters Grill, a restaurant in Rifle where servers openly carried guns.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2022
The couple paid about $27,000, said Marty Leichtung, a retired North Slope oil field worker.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2022
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
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
Only Marta wasn’t a poor field-worker like the rest of us.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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
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 Sinclair, Upton
He was stiff with his great age and the cruel rheumatism that is the doom of the field-worker; and against the brass and leather of his boots the stubble whispered loudly.
From Secret Bread by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)
