Surveyor

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who surveys or views.
  • noun. An overseer; a superintendent.
  • noun. A household officer; a supervisor of the other servants.
  • noun. One who views and examines something for the purpose of ascertaining its condition, quantity, or quality: as, a surveyor of roads and bridges; a surveyor of weights and measures.
  • noun. One who measures land, or practises the art of surveying.
  • noun. An officer of the British navy whose duty it is to supervise the building and repairing of ships for the navy.
  • noun. A common name in Australia for a fish, Serranus geometricus.
  • noun. Formerly an architect.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector.
  • noun. One who views and examines for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, quantity, or quality of anything
  • noun. One who surveys or measures land; one who practices the art of surveying.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; a gauger.
  • noun. In the United States, an officer whose duties include the various measures to be taken for ascertaining the quantity, condition, and value of merchandise brought into a port.
  • noun. An officer having charge of the survey of the public lands of a land district.
  • noun. See Circumferentor.
  • noun. See under Level.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A person occupied with surveying -- the process of determining positions on the earth's surface.
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  • noun. someone who conducts a statistical survey
  • noun. an engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures
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