Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A temporary military fortification erected in the field.
- noun Work done or firsthand observations made in the field as opposed to that done or observed in a controlled environment.
- noun The collecting of sociological or anthropological data in the field.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In surv., physics, etc., work done, observations taken, or other operations, as triangulation, leveling, observing the stars for latitude, longitude, azimuth, etc., making geological observations, studying objects in their natural state, collecting specimens, etc., carried on in the field or upon the ground, even though indoors.
- noun Milit., a temporary work thrown up by either besiegers or besieged, or by an army to strengthen a position.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mil.) Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable
work done, orobservations made out in the realworld rather than in controlled conditions - noun countable A temporary
fortification built bytroops
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an investigation carried out in the field rather than in a laboratory or headquarters
- noun a temporary fortification built by troops in the field
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Examples
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I can now say without a doubt that fieldwork is absolutely, 100%, unquestionably necessary in my subfield.
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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I can now say without a doubt that fieldwork is absolutely, 100%, unquestionably necessary in my subfield.
"In the Field" 2005
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There are five major subfields in my discipline, and doing fieldwork is not required for any of them but is highly recommended for one, the one in which I do most of my work.
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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There are five major subfields in my discipline, and doing fieldwork is not required for any of them but is highly recommended for one, the one in which I do most of my work.
"In the Field" 2005
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In The Mind Possessed (OUP, 2007), Cohen develops a radical new approach to explaining the transmission of spirit possession ideas and practices, based on recent discoveries in the cognitive sciences and on long-term fieldwork with a group of Afro-Brazilian spirit mediums in Brazil.
No Double Standards 2009
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Who else would suggest that Jefferson's many theories about black sexuality were not based entirely on racism and/or the limitations of eighteenth century scientific knowledge, but on "fieldwork" p.
"Clarence Walker Can't Say Those Things, Can He?" A Review of Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings Tenured Radical 2009
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Who else would suggest that Jefferson's many theories about black sexuality were not based entirely on racism and/or the limitations of eighteenth century scientific knowledge, but on "fieldwork" p.
Archive 2009-05-01 Tenured Radical 2009
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The term "fieldwork" generally brings to mind biologists, baboons and binoculars.
Don't Be Lame 2007
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"You've done this kind of fieldwork before, boy," he said, and began to dig at my side.
Cat & Mouse Patterson, James 1997
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The labor performed by these chattels -- such as fieldwork, house-work, and certain mechanical trades -- becomes, in the minds of the whites of the South, associated with the slaves themselves.
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