fieldwork

noun/ˈfildwɜrk/

Frequency rank: #13,562 most common English word

Meaning

practical work or research conducted in a real environment outside the laboratory or office.

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Example sentence

The researcher spent three months doing fieldwork in rural villages to collect data.

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