field work

1. 1.

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

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Questions about field work

What does field work mean?

field work means "an investigation carried out in the field rather than in a laboratory or headquarters".

Is field work a common word?

field work is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.