fieldwork

noun

field·work ˈfēld-ˌwərk

: a temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field

: work done in the field (as by students) to gain practical experience and knowledge through firsthand observation

: the gathering of anthropological or sociological data through the interviewing and observation of subjects in the field

field-worker

ˈfēld-ˌwər-kər

noun

Examples of fieldwork in a Sentence

an anthropologist who has done fieldwork in the South Pacific

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Over the course of her fieldwork, de la Torre observed the way pygmy marmoset groups developed specific dialects that were learned by the infants and that depended in part on the ambient noise of the surrounding forest. —

Jessica Camille Aguirre, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025 Researchers described the species based on fossils uncovered during recent fieldwork in the Djebel Chambi National Park, Tunisia, in North Africa. —

Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024 At the time Aida did her fieldwork, in late 2023, a man from Buryatia was roughly thirty-five times more likely to go and die in Ukraine than one from Moscow. —

Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025 Trail masters complete trail maintenance and fieldwork alongside authority staff. —

Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 22 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for fieldwork