Word Finder - fieldwork

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Work done out in the fields as opposed to that done elsewhere on the farm (e.g., barn, house, outbuildings, office).

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Work done out in the real world rather than in controlled conditions

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That well Bob set up last weekend was some good fieldwork.

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(in scientific research) The collection of raw data in the field, field research, field study, field studies.

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I thought the fieldwork in the course I was taking was going to be hard, but it was just interviewing people.

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A temporary fortification built by troops in the field.

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Billy's out building some fieldwork so that our enemies don't walk right over us.

The project can be library based or can involve fieldwork.

The course has given me a great deal of enjoyment, both inside the classroom and when undertaking fieldwork.

The unit will undertake fieldwork for five case studies in Scotland, of which three will be ' intensive ' .

It has been a full season for books on archeological fieldwork with a personal ' memoir ' feel about them.

Crosbie and Nimon continued to work on doctoral theses arising from their antarctic fieldwork.

Difficult for photography but ideal for the geological fieldwork I was doing!

She has carried out intensive fieldwork among the social and political elites of Rajasthan and has published on ritual and kingship.

The problems of maintaining geography fieldwork with increased student numbers is outlined.

We have a very early fieldwork in the undergrad course - 2 or three weeks in to the semester.

Also involves the anthropologist expressing feelings felt during fieldwork, and relations built w / members of community.

Fieldwork is carried out at Radnor Forest in Wales, where Forestry Commission research into the green spruce aphid is already established.

I also conduct occasional fieldwork foraging for more Scottish dinosaur material from the Isle of Skye.

Other activities such as the conduct of anthropological fieldwork are relegated, on this account, to an insignificant footnote.

In addition to fieldwork, visits to libraries and invitations to practicing librarians to give lectures have been regular features.

The fieldwork is focussed on investigation of a wide range of remobilisation features in turbidite sequences.

The ethnographic fieldwork lasted from the 17 th July to the 24 th July 2001.