surveyor

IPA: sɝvˈeɪɝ

A person occupied with surveying -- the process of determining positions on the earth's surface.
(UK) A person charged with inspecting something for the purpose of determining its condition, value, etc.

Examples of "surveyor" in Sentences

Just had a "surveyor" come by and ask how we planned to vote on Prop 8.
"Palin spox: Targets on SarahPAC map were actually 'surveyor's symbols'"
It became clear that the surveyor was the main personality at a Scud launch.
The owner and the "surveyor" were the people responsible, and the plans, directions and details given to the workmen were astonishingly meager.
The officers have shot the Milford scene with a Nikon laser surveyor, which is used to make computer generated drawings that Horn said look three-dimensional.
The surveyor was a young English doctor named William John Wills, whose principle qualifications seem to have been a respectable background and a willingness to go.
Simon Chase, a 25-year-old surveyor from the English city of Birmingham, said he never considered not making the journey to Sandwich, even though he was well aware of the weather forecast.
The compulsorily home reports were introduced by the Scottish Government a year ago and contain a valuation commissioned by the seller from a surveyor, which is meant to be acceptable to both parties.
Cap'n Sproul at that moment had his fist up ready to spack it down into his palm to add emphasis to some particularly violent observation he was just then making to Mr. Tate, highway "surveyor" in Tumble-dick District.