Definition of "field trip" [field trip]

• A group excursion for the purpose of firsthand observation, as to a museum, the woods, or a historic place. (noun)

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• "She studied maps and the Tourguide book of the American Automobile Association and reviewed every field trip her class had ever taken."
• "On February 1,1984, Ms. Vanadurongvan went on a field trip to Mexico to study the on-line branch and ATM system implemented at Banco Internacional BI, the fourth largest bank in that country."