FIELD-WORKとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

field work (countable and uncountable, plural field works)

1. A temporary fortification in the field
   • 1954 - Irish Defense Act, 1954; Section 268:

     If any person, without lawful authority, makes or attempts to make any sketch, drawing, photograph, picture, painting, model or note of any fort, battery, field work, fortification or any military work of defence, aerodrome, barracks, post, magazine, munition factory, stores depot or any other Government property occupied or partly occupied by the Defence Forces or any portion thereof, such person shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or, at the discretion of the court, imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months, and all sketches, drawings, photographs, pictures, paintings, models and notes and all tools and all materials or apparatus for sketching, drawing, photographing, painting or modelling found in his possession shall be forfeited and may be destroyed, sold or otherwise disposed of as a Minister of State directs.

2. (sciences, research) The collection of raw data, in the field.
   • 1993, Dick Hobbs, Tim May, Interpreting the field: accounts of ethnography‎, page 45:

     They must gain access, engage in field-work, and finally leave the field to carry out analysis.

語源

From 中期英語 *felde-werk (found in plural felde werkes), equivalent to field +‎ work.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfiːldwɜːk/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈfildwɝk/

名詞

fieldwork (countable and uncountable, plural fieldworks)

1. (uncountable, agriculture) Work done out in the fields as opposed to that done elsewhere on the farm (e.g., barn, house, outbuildings, office).
   • 1917, Knut Hamsun, Growth of the Soil, Book 1, Ch.3, at p.30:

     The days now were occupied in field work and more field work; he cleared new bits of ground, getting out roots and stones; plowing, manuring, harrowing, working with pick and spade, breaking lumps of soil and crumbling them with hand and heel; a tiller of the ground always, laying out fields like velvet carpets. He waited a couple of days longer―there was a look of rain about―and then he sowed his grain.

   Synonym: outwork

   Besides the bookkeeping and marketing, there's a ton of fieldwork to get done this week.

2. (uncountable) Work done out in the real world rather than in controlled conditions.

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

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

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

4. (countable, rare) A temporary fortification built by troops in the field; a defensive earthwork in the field.

   Coordinate term: outwork

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

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