FIELD-TEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does field-test mean? 

• FIELD-TEST (verb)
  The verb FIELD-TEST has 1 sense:

1. test something under the conditions under which it will actually be used

  Familiarity information: FIELD-TEST used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIELD-TEST (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they field-test    ... he / she / it field-tests   
Past simple: field-tested   
Past participle: field-tested   
-ing form: field-testing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Test something under the conditions under which it will actually be used

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

The Army field tested the new tanks

Hypernyms (to "field-test" is one way to...):

essay; examine; prove; test; try; try out (put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

field test (a test of the performance of some new product under the conditions in which it will be used)

 Context examples 

They also field-tested the extract in small, working bee colonies.

(Mushroom Extract Could Help Save Bees from Virus, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)