surveyor

/sərˈveɪ·ər/ n [C]

Definition

› a person whose job is to measure and describe the details of an area of land : It took a team of surveyors about three months to lay out this part of the new highway.

(Definition of surveyor n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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survey v ASK QUESTIONS
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