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mahi tūwaenga

1. (noun) fieldwork.

Nō te mutunga o ana mahi tūwaenga i ngā motu o te Kuki Airani, i te tau 1930, ka hoki mai ia ki konei mō te kotahi marama (TTR 1996:15). / When he finished his fieldwork in the Cook Islands in 1930 he returned here for a month.

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