chartered surveyor

British

noun

(in Britain) a surveyor who is registered with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors as having the qualifications, training, and experience to satisfy their professional requirements

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"The processes that we've got are so archaic and too costly and too complicated. There's surely got to be a quicker way of doing it," says the chartered surveyor.

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2025

“My father was a former chartered surveyor, but I’m not,” he told the BBC.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 2022

Five years ago, during the Rio 2016 Paralympics, Watson was working a desk job as a chartered surveyor.

From BBC • Aug. 31, 2021

My neighbours and I have hired our own chartered surveyor and engineer, and are consulting a lawyer who specialises in suing insurers who break the spirit of the agreements that they make.

From The Guardian • May 25, 2012

KiFin has proposed installing Philip Lewis, a chartered surveyor with more than 30 years' experience in the London property market, as an interim chief executive, with former Investec boss Bradley Fried as a non-executive director.

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2010

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