fieldwork
/ˈfiːldwɜːrk/
noun
- Practical work conducted by researchers, scientists, or students in a natural environment rather than in a laboratory or classroom.
- Geologists often travel to remote locations for fieldwork.
- Her fieldwork involved interviewing farmers about their irrigation methods.
- The biology students spent the summer doing fieldwork in the rainforest.
- Work done in the field (as opposed to an office), especially in agriculture, construction, or surveying.
- The surveyors spent weeks doing fieldwork to map the new development.
- Agricultural fieldwork includes planting, harvesting, and soil testing.
- He prefers fieldwork to sitting at a desk all day.
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