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Can we attest the literal meaning of this phrase? ---> Tooironic (talk) 03:04, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
- Widespread use in geology, paleontology, engineering, archaeology, history, etc. They occur often when professionals in any field are at a meeting in a place where the area has places of professional interest. The student-teacher sense is a specialization. DCDuring TALK 03:21, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
- Extremely common use. Plentiful citations can be found at google books:"field trip" "GSA" (GSA is the Geological Society of America). —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 20:26, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
- Based on the Google Books hits, I'd say the geology/paleontology/etc sense is not limited to fields (a trip to e.g. foothills could also be called a "field trip")... but an accurate sense 1 would be redundant to sense 2. I think we just need to combine the senses. "An educational trip made by students or researchers out into the field (realm of practical, direct, or natural operation) (to a valley, mountain, field/plain, etc)." - -sche (discuss) 05:15, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
- DCDuring has expanded sense 2, and I have now merged sense 1 into it, per my comment above. - -sche (discuss) 01:40, 28 July 2015 (UTC)