surveyor
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5.3
- noun
- /sərˈveɪər/
- Specialized
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agrimensor
- The town hired a surveyor to plan the new road and ensure it met safety standards.
- county surveyor
- land surveyor
- engineers and surveyors
And those were two English surveyors and I believe Jeremiah Dixon, it was the Geordie boy.
- And those were two English surveyors and I believe Jeremiah Dixon, it was the Geordie boy.
- I was stuck in the oil and gas industry working as a survey, survey engineer, dimensional surveyor.
- It's an instrument that often was made out of precious metals because it was only for special people like surveyors.
Examples
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And the surveyors are measuring up as we speak, sir.
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I'm a surveyor.
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I fear that if they see the surveyor, they may raise their asking price.
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So we brought in a surveyor.
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Your father's a surveyor, and you could get him to take you to a mine.
Fiction book (1996) -
I could have listed my profession as a land surveyor in the register.
Fiction book (1995) -
Dr. Currier, Atlanta's city surveyor, purchased a set of plotting instruments at the estate sale.
Academic text (2011) -
The bubble-shaped dining compartments seemed more crowded than usual with miners, surveyors, and researchers.
Fiction book (1998) -
The surveyor carefully marked the boundaries of the property with flags.
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After the storm, we hired a surveyor to assess the damage to our house.
Synonyms
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7.5
A person who measures and marks the edges of land to show who owns it
A person who measures and marks straight lines on land
A person who makes detailed maps of land features like rivers and hills
A person who checks and divides land or goods between owners
Compounds
How Authorized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Surveyor comes from the word survey, which has the part sur- meaning 'over' and a part that means 'to see', like the word see or view. A surveyor is literally someone who 'looks over' land to measure and map it, so the name fits the person who checks boundaries and heights.