fieldwork
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈfiːldwɜːrk/
- Specialized
:
trabajo de campo
- The biologist spent several months in the rainforest for her fieldwork on tropical ecosystems.
- conduct fieldwork
- extensive fieldwork
- anthropological fieldwork
Examples
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My wife's arrival in Dry Bay several weeks into the fieldwork seemed to help.
Academic text (1990) -
At the time, I was conducting fieldwork in New York City's mainstream jazz community.
Academic text (1999) -
On the other hand, our fieldwork proved that reality goes beyond statistics.
Academic text (2011) -
Most importantly, he opened his home to me during a period of my fieldwork in 2006.
Academic text (2008) -
You mentioned my ethnographic fieldwork in the Amazon.
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I conducted photo-elicitation fieldwork and focus groups between April and July 2009.
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African scholars conducting fieldwork among their own people have not only advantages but also difficulties.
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After undertaking several fieldwork expeditions in the United States, he shifted his attention to West Africa.
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Examples used throughout this article are drawn from my dissertation fieldwork and other interactions with Reggio-inspired schools.
Academic text (2013) -
Nongovernment forest experts working in Khulna District were also selected, given their extensive fieldwork in the forest.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
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3.8
Study done outside in natural places like forests or villages
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3.1
A school activity where children look at plants and animals in nature
Antonyms
How Extensive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fieldwork is made of field 'open land' and work 'job or study', so it means the hands-on work people do outside rather than in a lab or office. A helpful way to remember it is to picture researchers or students doing their 'job' out in nature or a village.