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means Research conducted out in the real world — among people, animals, soil, or ruins — rather than in a controlled lab or library.

from A straightforward compound of 'field' (the open land where work happens, as opposed to indoors) and 'work.' It entered scientific and scholarly use mainly through 19th-century naturalists, surveyors, and anthropologists who distinguished data gathered outdoors, on-site, from analysis done later at a desk — the muddy-boots half of research, as opposed to the clean-hands half.