fieldwork

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Middle English *felde-werk (found in plural felde werkes), equivalent to field + work.

To all this long list there are added for female students, instruction in needlework and weaving, housekeeping, and gardening; and for the male, slöjd, gardening, and fieldwork. — Through Finland in Carts, Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie
Not only where you are—at the heart of affairs and of the world—is the talk all of war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature—which townsfolk consider characteristic of the country—rumors of war are heard and painfully felt. — War and Peace, Leo, graf Tolstoy
Outdoor: garden and fieldwork, cycling on level macadamised causeways, ascents of moderately high hills, natation in secluded fresh water and unmolested river boating in secure wherry or light curricle with kedge anchor on reaches free from weirs and rapids (period of estivation), vespertinal perambulation or equestrian circumprocession with inspection of sterile landscape and contrastingly agreeable cottagers’ fires of smoking peat turves (period of hibernation). — Ulysses, James Joyce

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