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
“Once he was holding hands with a girl and once he traded hats with a field worker and walked right through us wearing a poncho and field hand’s sombrero.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 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
The sign-up bonus alone for a soldier fighting in Ukraine may be equivalent to nearly a year’s salary for an average oil and gas field worker.
From Seattle Times ● May 6, 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
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
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
Thus, in arguing the case for the field-worker, as I propose here to do, there is no longer the easy target of the dusty antiquarian at which to hurl the javelin.
From The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology by Arthur E. P. B. Weigall
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
