fieldworker
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- noun
- /ˈfiːldˌwɜːrkər/
- Specialized
:
trabajador de campo
- As a fieldworker, he spent long hours interviewing farmers about their irrigation practices.
- fieldworker, anthropologist
- trained fieldworkers
Examples
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Outreach fieldworkers, under the supervision of the authors, conducted extensive fieldwork in the targeted community.
Academic text (2007) -
The use of indigenous fieldworkers reduced the possibility of inaccurate communication with the children.
Academic text (1996) -
All of the preservice teachers had experience in an inclusion class as a fieldworker or student teacher.
Academic text (2004) -
The relationship between a fieldworker and a key informant may be close, amiable, and multifaceted.
Academic text (1991) -
All fieldwork was carried out in Maasai by a fieldworker (a Maasai elder) who lived in the area.
Academic text (1996) -
The personal testimonies collected by its fieldworkers are to be found (primarily in excerpted form) throughout its publications.
Academic text (1994) -
All instructions were translated into written Maasai and crosschecked by fieldworkers; all were literate, educated Maasai who were respected members of their communities.
Academic text (1996) -
The fieldworker collected data on local wildlife in the rainforest near her home.
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The fieldworker's notes provided valuable insights for the research team studying rural health.
Synonyms
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A person who studies something carefully to find new information
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3.6
A person who studies facts and evidence to find the truth
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3.3
A person who studies things to find new facts at a university or lab
How Experienced
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word fieldworker comes from two simple words: field ('open land where people work or grow crops') and worker ('someone who works'). So a fieldworker is a person who goes out to the place where the subject lives or works to study it, rather than staying in an office or a lab.