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in the field1On campaign; (while) engaged in combat or manoeuvres: troops in the field...- These compelling books illuminate combat at the eyeball level of troops in the field.
- Hence it came to mean a temporary encampment of troops in the field without tents and using only locally available shelter.
- This and later increases in size were initiated more by military leaders in the field than by central authorities.
1.1Away from the laboratory, office, or studio; engaged in practical work in a natural environment: like other vulcanologists, Wright works in the field with active and even erupting volcanoes...- Lubricant effectiveness is assessed by bench scale and full scale testing in the laboratory and in the field.
- It is not even the live organism held in the hand, caged in the laboratory, or seen in the field.
- Dr. Drysdale has made the same observations, both in the field and in his laboratory.
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