to field
- verb
- /fiːld/
- During the press conference, he was able to field challenging questions from reporters with ease.
- field questions
- field phone calls
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Examples
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A Washington reporter speaks to the 200 students for fifteen minutes and fields questions for forty-five minutes.
Academic text (1993) -
The format will be after she speaks, she will field a few questions.
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So if you are in in one of the chat rooms, he will be there to to field your question for us.
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But I could field a couple of queries.
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I'm happy to field all questions on their behalf.
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"More or less," he says, crossing his arms as he fields my questions: "How often should we patrol?"
Fiction book (2002) -
Look, my office is fielding complaints about plans for this place on a daily basis, more or less.
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After reading them all, I visited the classes, added information and insight, and fielded questions.
Academic text (2014) -
Her flexibility is demonstrated quite often, as she fields student and staff needs on a minute-by-minute basis.
Academic text (2011) -
At the end of each talk, the speakers fielded often-pointed questions from other campers and staff members.
Academic text (1993)
Antonyms
Idioms
Make the situation different so some people have a better chance to win
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
Date several different people without wanting a serious relationship
- Informal
To move quickly and forcefully forward across a playing field in sports to try to score
- Specialized
To stop growing crops on a field for a time to let the soil get better
Compounds
- Specialized
An area around a magnet or electric current where a magnet's force moves objects
The part of the outfield on the left side in baseball and the player who plays there
- US
The part of the baseball outfield behind second base between left and right field
- US
An area of grass or artificial grass marked for playing soccer with goalposts
A team sport played on grass where players use curved sticks to hit a small hard ball into a goal
- Specialized
An area around a charged object that pushes or pulls other small charged things
- Specialized
A temporary hospital near a disaster or battlefield that treats injured people
An area where broken pieces from an accident or storm are spread over the ground
- Specialized
The space around a planet or other object that pulls things toward it
- Specialized
The area you can see at one time, for example through a camera or telescope
- Specialized
An idea in physics that explains forces and particles as things spread through space and time, like gravity or electricity
- Specialized
A measure of how strong an electric or magnetic field is at a place
- Specialized
A person in the army with the rank of major, lieutenant colonel, or colonel
An area of land people prepare and keep for playing sports like soccer or track
- Specialized
A wire wrapped around a magnet that makes a magnetic field in motors and generators
- Specialized
An imaginary line that shows the direction of the force around magnets or electric charges
- Specialized
Large mobile guns that armies use to fire at enemy positions to help front-line troops
A situation where everyone has an equal chance and no one has unfair advantages
A competition on the field where athletes jump or throw, like long jump and shot put
Part of business that helps companies tell people about and sell products or services
- Specialized
A region around the Sun where magnetic forces affect charged particles
- Jargon
A player who leads and directs the team's play on the field, often the quarterback
- Specialized
A branch of physics explaining how very small particles and fields interact
- Literature
A situation where a person's charm makes others ignore real problems
- Specialized
A large movable weapon soldiers use on the battlefield to fire at enemy troops
How Effective
Surface Forms
Etymology
Field gives the idea of handling things 'out in the open', so to field a question is to take it and deal with it, much like catching or handling something that comes your way.