to field
- verb
- /fiːld/
- During the press conference, he was able to field challenging questions from reporters with ease.
- field questions
- field phone calls
Like, what do you think is the strongest argument that you've had to field against veganism?
- Like, what do you think is the strongest argument that you've had to field against veganism?
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
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
A temporary hospital near a disaster or battlefield that treats injured people
- 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 area around a charged object that pushes or pulls other small charged things
- Specialized
A measure of how strong an electric or magnetic field is at a place
- US
The part of the baseball outfield behind second base between left and right field
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 idea in physics that explains forces and particles as things spread through space and time, like gravity or electricity
- Specialized
Large mobile guns that armies use to fire at enemy positions to help front-line troops
- Specialized
A person in the army with the rank of major, lieutenant colonel, or colonel
A competition on the field where athletes jump or throw, like long jump and shot put
- Jargon
A player who leads and directs the team's play on the field, often the quarterback
- Specialized
An imaginary line that shows the direction of the force around magnets or electric charges
Part of business that helps companies tell people about and sell products or services
- Specialized
A microscope that makes tiny particles too small for an ordinary microscope appear bright on a dark background
- Specialized
An area around electric charges that pushes or pulls other charges
A situation where everyone has an equal chance and no one has unfair advantages
- Specialized
A large movable weapon soldiers use on the battlefield to fire at enemy troops
- Specialized
Electrons leave a material's surface when a strong electric field pulls them into empty space
- Specialized
How strong and which way an electric or magnetic field is at a point
- Specialized
An area where soldiers fight and do military work during a war
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.