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FIELD WORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does field work mean? 

FIELD WORK (noun)
  The noun FIELD WORK has 1 sense:

1. an investigation carried out in the field rather than in a laboratory or headquartersplay

  Familiarity information: FIELD WORK used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FIELD WORK (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An investigation carried out in the field rather than in a laboratory or headquarters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("field work" is a kind of...):

research (systematic investigation to establish facts)


 Context examples 


"The research involved field work in remote locations, lab work associated with analyzing soil microbial DNA and computer analyses using large datasets."

(From tropical to boreal ecosystems, temperature drives functioning, National Science Foundation)

Flora de Brasil is a digital platform that gathers data from hundreds of years of field work in the Amazon region, with input from countless taxonomists.

(Inventory revises down Amazon tree species list, SciDev.Net)

Princeton University scientists who were conducting their field work on the island of Daphne Major, noticed a non-native male bird — cactus finches — on the island in 1981.

(Researchers report rapid formation of new bird species in Galápagos islands, Wikinews)



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