surveyor
noun
a person whose occupation is surveying.
surveyors
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pluralof surveyor.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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As Manchester recounted, “The artist’s eye was uncanny; next morning a team of surveyors found he had been less than six inches off the axis.”
From Salon ● May 7, 2026
But though Americans haven’t held back their complaints from surveyors, other signals point to a stretched but resilient consumer economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
That means it couldn’t deploy surveyors to the field to collect the real-time pricing data needed to help generate the inflation index.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2025
In the late 19th century, a federal effort to send surveyors throughout the state to create reservations for California mission tribes began in San Diego but lost steam by the time it reached Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2025
Father said that surveyors always knew about the good deals on land and could get rich speculating.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
