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• A team of surveyors was tasked with remonumenting the state's public lands.From the entry remonument
• Residential surveyors also say pepper-potting reduces the marketability of a house.2008, Barry Goodchild, Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods, page 222. From the entry pepper-pot
• Tenorio and Associates' surveyors, the depth of the cryptodepression is -1.4m (4.7 ft) below sea level.1979 June, “Appendix A: Problem Identification”, in A Study to Determine the Feasibility of Providing Flood Control Improvements to the…. From the entry cryptodepression
• The surveyors called the police, who arrived and taped off the wooded area, securing it as an active crime scene.2026 August 17, Nicholas Muhoro, “Craig Frear Disappeared After Avoiding His Father in 2004, and No Trace of Him Has Ever Been Found”, in…. From the entry tape off
• Not so long ago, most surveyors thought that sun shots and star shots were more trouble than they were worth.1987, American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, ACSM technical papers, page 167. From the entry sun shot
• The sort of language in use among many of these hydrographic surveyors is sufficient to demonstrate their landlubberliness.1985, The Hydrographic Journal, numbers 35-38, page 15. From the entry landlubberliness
• The Long Man is the dod-man, the prehistoric surveyor.[1925], Arthur Watkins, “Ley-men”, in The Old Straight Track; Its Mounds, Beacons, Moats, Sites, and Mark Stones, London: Methuen, →OCLC…. From the entry dodman
• It makes me miserable when I think of the number of poor surveyors still push-biking their daily round.1913, Surveyor, volume 43, London: [Taylor & Francis?], →OCLC, page 1001, column 2. From the entry push-bike
• A surveyor typically conducts a tracer on his or her own and later meets up with the rest of the team to discuss findings.2011, Joint Commission Resources, Environment of Care Tracer Workbook, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry tracer
• The world's largest surveyor of deepwater oil fields won a contract to conduct a survey of the French Gulf of Lion to map sand reserves.2011 September 11, “Fugro, Royal Philips Electronics: Benelux Equity Preview”, in San Francisco Chronicle. From the entry conduct
• Having chosen and monumented the initial point, the surveyor established the "principal meridian" by traversing north and south from the initial point.2009, Stephen V. Estopinal, A Guide to Understanding Land Surveys, page 91. From the entry monument
• That year four men looked like good material for the expedition: a surveyor, an engineer, a shutterer (concrete moldmaker) and a scaffolding erector.1983, Ranulph Fiennes, To the Ends of the Earth. From the entry shutterer
• The surveyor alone carries two rods.[1925], Arthur Watkins, “Ley-men”, in The Old Straight Track; Its Mounds, Beacons, Moats, Sites, and Mark Stones, London: Methuen, →OCLC…. From the entry dodman
• Some Irish and American instruments were equipped with an “outkeeper,” a dial that helped the surveyor keep track of the number of times (“outs”) a chain had been run.2020, Matthew H. Edney, Mary Sponberg Pedley, The History of Cartography, page 678. From the entry outkeeper
• Government surveyors set to work, importing hundreds of Indian coolies, thousands of donkeys and camels, and the millions of sleepers required for this monstrous engineering project.2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower. From the entry sleeper
• In the meanwhile, the surveyors carried the line three miles, which was no contemptible day's work, considering how cruelly they were entangled with briers and gallbushes.Quoted in 2002, Stephen C. Ausband, Byrd's Line: A Natural History (page 37). From the entry meanwhile
• The surveyor kept a record of the number of “outs” sometimes using a counting device called an outkeeper, which was placed on the face of the instrument .2000, John Barry Love, The Colonial Surveyor in Pennsylvania, page 35. From the entry outkeeper
• Surveyors differ in opinion, some use 10 per cent. of the screenings from the machine as blindage; the writer has tried these, but prefers the road scrapings.1907, Robert Phillips, “Discussion on Construction and Maintenance of Rural Roads”, in Report of the 3d-4th Congress of the Sanitary…. From the entry blindage

Meaning of surveyor

1. noun A person occupied with surveying: the process of determining positions on the earth's surface.
2. noun One who carries out a survey or poll.
3. noun A person charged with inspecting something for the purpose of determining its condition, value, etc.

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How do you use surveyor in a sentence?

Surveyor is used as a noun. For example: “Other costs associated with selling a home include surveyor's fees, legal fees, estate agent's commission, stamp duty and the VAT.”

What is a short sentence with surveyor?

“The surveyor alone carries two rods.”

What does surveyor mean?

Surveyor means a person occupied with surveying: the process of determining positions on the earth's surface.