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ˈfield-worker
[f. field n. + worker.]
One who performs field-work (senses 1 and 3).
1832Chambers's Edin. Jrnl. I. 115/3 Being then left by him without any provision, she sunk into the condition of a field-worker. 1915J. Webster Dear Enemy (1916) 26 We need a field worker to travel about the country and pick up all the hereditary statistics she can about our chicks. 1922B. Malinowski Argonauts West. Pacific 9 The field worker relies entirely upon inspiration from theory. 1935Amer. Speech X. 4/1 The personal character of the informant..is of great importance. Unless he is hospitable, the fieldworker has little chance of putting the case before him. Unless he is honest, his answers to the fieldworker's questions lose most of their value. 1950Oxoniensia XV. 13 The thin but widespread scatter of Romano-British potsherds which can be picked up from the surface and lynchets of Celtic fields is a phenomenon which the field-worker soon learns to accept as a matter of course in Celtic field areas. 1961Evening Standard 2 Aug. 12/3 (Advt.), Market research part-time field workers..for retailer research. |