field work
11
3.8
- noun
- /fiːld wɜrk/
:
trabajo de campo
- - Your work, your hopes, your dreams - Well, I work as a teacher and I also do field work and write monographs.
- field work restoration
- ecological field work
- field work experience
And for this book I have just done field work in New York, Seoul, Jeju, Los Angeles and London.
- And for this book I have just done field work in New York, Seoul, Jeju, Los Angeles and London.
- And if you'd asked him, well, if you're going to write about them, shouldn't you do some field work, he'd have looked at you as if you were crazy.
- In his efforts in field work, it led him to work in four dozen countries, including Nepal, Mali, Bangladesh and Haiti.
- There was a woke ISM back then, but he had this amazing idea that was based on a lot of intense field work looking through museum specimens.
- And I did all that, that field work, if you will.
- This is what he's calling field work, right?
- And yeah, this was so it's pretty intense field work even at that age.
Examples
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While studying animal behavior, I conducted field work in various natural habitats.
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And primarily what I do in my ethnographic field work is talk to people, talk to navigators.
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And I did a bit of like field work with children and I asked them to draw the concept of a man and a woman.
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Are you up for a little field work?
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I used to love doing field work.
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Still more important, however, were the clinical studies initially done as field work.
Academic text (2001) -
I've always done field work, you know gone out followed tracks, looked for signs, things like that.
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When I began Chimbu field work in 1958, several interests guided my choice of a field site.
Academic text (1990) -
It's in Borneo where I did my field work when I first was doing my undergraduates degree.
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He's conducted extensive field work in Nigeria, in Sierra Leone, in Haiti and in Los Angeles.
Synonyms
9
3.8
Research done outside a lab by watching people, plants, or animals
How Scientific
223
4.7
- Specialized
46
3.8
11
3.8
- Specialized
9
3.8
1
3.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'practical research carried out in the natural environment' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'field' (an outdoor site) with 'work' (effort/activity): literally, work carried out in the field. The noun–noun compounding pattern and clear cross-linguistic equivalents (e.g., Spanish 'trabajo de campo', French 'travail sur le terrain') make this immediately comprehensible to learners who know both constituents.
Etymology
Field work comes from the idea of researchers going out into open fields or natural places to do their work instead of staying in an office or lab. So, it means 'practical research done outside a lab or office'.