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missurvey

missurvey noun: an inaccurate survey.

Noun

missurvey (plural missurveys)

  1. An inaccurate survey.
    • Well, my knowledge, so far as it goes, is that a great many deputy surveyors have misstated facts and made missurveys.1874, State of California, Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly, page 253
    • The surveyor is usually called in after the occupation is discovered to be foreign and therefore an encroachment; then the misplacement is found to be the result of a missurvey, or no survey.1967, American Society of Civil Engineers, Journal of the Surveying and Mapping Division, page 122

Verb

missurvey (third-person singular simple present missurveys, present participle missurveying, simple past and past participle missurveyed)

  1. To survey inaccurately; to produce a missurvey.
    • BLM holds this parcel in reserve under the Omitted Lands Act of 1962, which provided BLM with the authority to clear the titles and hold or dispose of lands missurveyed along the course of the Snake River ( Marty Benham, Bureau of Land Management, Idaho Falls Office, May 1982, personal...1983, Snake River Gem State Hydroelectric Project License, pages 4-25
    • As you know, since 1946, Congress has been trying to resolve the problem of the 105th meridian land that was missurveyed by the Federal Government on our easternmost border.1984, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs, The Impact of Coal Land Exchanges on Value of Indian-owned Coal, page 9

Examples of missurvey in a sentence

  • Have you ever heard of a missurvey suit winning?1992, F. L. Kafka, Tunnel to Glory: A Novel, page 146:
  • A note in the ELP states: "Land sold to Eliab Yeoman, then to John Clapp, then Jesse Oakly and then to David Barker was missurveyed and had to be redone.1990, Frank J. Doherty, Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York, page 374:
  • Forest Service wrote a letter dated December 2, 1958, in which he requested a resurvey of an area of more than one hundred acres that had been missurveyed “either through gross error or fraud.”2019, Phyllis Root, The Lost Forest:

Forms of missurvey

Noun
pluralmissurveys
Verb
third-person singular presentmissurveys
present participlemissurveying
past participlemissurveyed
pastmissurveyed

Origin of missurvey

From mis- + survey.

Questions about missurvey

What does missurvey mean?
Missurvey means an inaccurate survey.
How do you use missurvey in a sentence?
Have you ever heard of a missurvey suit winning?
What part of speech is missurvey?
Missurvey can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of missurvey?
The plural of missurvey is missurveys.

Words near missurvey in the dictionary

  1. missupposed
  2. missupposes
  3. missupposing
  4. missupposition
  5. missuppositions
  6. missurvey
  7. missurveyed
  8. missurveying
  9. missurveys
  10. missus
  11. Missus President

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