Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man employed in the field, as a member of a field-party; also, a traveling representative of an enterprise or an undertaking: distinguished from one employed indoors.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Though the fieldman who took the first look wasn't convinced it was something new, Goodwin wasn't fazed.
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Dr. Dale Lattz, University of Illinois Extension farm management specialist and Gary Bressner, State Bank of Graymon, vice president of commercial lending and former FBFM fieldman, will speak.
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An East German agent resident in Leipzig would have to be "exfiltrated" to be brought out permanently, as opposed to coming out for a short visit. fieldman, deskman, preliminary interrogation, surveillance, case officer, operational subsistence, courier, and cryptonym are lumped together by Mr. Lasseter as "literal and transparent enough for the layman to understand."
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He sometimes borrows rather dry terms like fieldman, deskman, preliminary interrogation, surveillance, case officer, operational subsistence, courier, and cryptonym -- all of which are literal and transparent enough for the layman to understand.
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"Then there was the problem a Geological Survey fieldman had in proposing the name of a quadrangle map in New Mexico.
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