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1691 T. Tryon Way to Health 17 Look amongst ordinary working-people in Country-Towns, and you shall very rarely see any of the Husband-men or Field-workers very Fat.

1832 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 12 May 115/3 Being then left by him without any provision, she sunk into the condition of a field-worker.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 14 Dec. 2/1 When they get off at mid-day to eat their ‘piece’, there is talking and laughing among the field workers.

1938 J. Marks Family of Barrett xxxii. 422 Slaves who were field workers or predials were to become apprentices and work for their former owners for twelve years.

1990 Countryside Winter 139/1 There is a full-time, on-site plantation manager..and 10 field workers who have plenty of work to do in spring—the traditional season for clearing and burning.

1915 J. Webster Dear Enemy 27 We need a field worker to travel about the country and pick up all the hereditary statistics she can about our chicks.

1935 Amer. Speech 10 4/1 Unless he [sc. the informant] is hospitable, the fieldworker has little chance of putting the case before him.

1961 Evening Standard 2 Aug. 12/3 (advt.) Market research part-time field workers..for retailer research.

1994 Equinox Spring 15/3 A team of fieldworkers spent thousands of hours combing the park for tracks, scat and signs of predation.