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# surveyor

«surveyor» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person whose job is to measure land and make maps or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a surveyor, surveyors)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A surveyor is a person whose job is to measure land and make maps or plans of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surveyor/#m1)

2) A surveyor is also someone who checks a building to see what condition it is in, often before people buy it (money, UK). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surveyor/#m2)

3) A surveyor can be an official who inspects something, like ships. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surveyor/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and maths lessons surveyors use measuring tools, angles and distances to map land. In adult life, people buying a house pay a surveyor to check for damp or cracks. Phrases: land surveyor, building surveyor, a surveyor's report.

### examples

- The surveyor measured the field with a special tool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surveyor/#x1)
- The surveyor's map showed where the new road would go. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surveyor/#x2)
- Before buying the house, Mum and Dad hired a surveyor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surveyor/#x3)
- The surveyor found damp in the cellar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surveyor/#x4)
- Long ago, surveyors mapped the coastlines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surveyor/#x5)
- My aunt is a surveyor and works outdoors a lot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surveyor/#x6)

### note

Countable noun. Verb: survey; noun: a survey (a careful look or a set of questions). In maths, surveyors use triangles and angles to find distances they cannot measure directly.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «surveyor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surveyor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.