surveyor
noun
a person whose occupation is surveying.
surveyorship
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a word derived from
surveyor.
Example Sentences
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Richard Lindsay was supported for the surveyorship and myself for the naval office.
From Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
The resident surveyorship, an appointment which had been created in 1742, was abolished as no longer necessary, Palmer himself being at hand to give what advice the postmasters-general might require.
From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Herbert Joyce
The point of attack was the Salem Post Office, but this proved impracticable, and attention was turned to the Custom House, where either the surveyorship or the naval office might be got.
From Nathaniel Hawthorne by George Edward Woodberry
Who has ever heard of a Government which binds itself to give the surveyorship of a new country to one man only?
From A Century of Wrong by F. W. Reitz
The choice, in any case, lay between the Naval Office and the surveyorship, and Bridge urged Hawthorne's appointment to the latter.
From A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop
