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
A person sufficiently trained to locate and record the exact physical boundaries of a parcel of land When property is conveyed from one party to another it is important to identify positively the exact boundaries of the property so that there is no doubt where the property lies in relation to all other parcels To accomplish this task a survey is made A surveyor physically inspects and measures the property The precise measurements are included in the deed used to transfer ownership of the property
A person who uses measurements and mathematics to define the location of property boundaries, the elevation of important features and the size of real estate parcels
In ocean cargo, an individual well versed in shipping practices, packaging techniques, characteristics or properties of merchandise shipped in international trade and attendant damage, which may happen to it Back to the top
The term Surveyor is virtually meaningless in the English language without a qualifying adjective, such as "land", "hydrographic", "quantity" for example Words also have significant differences of meaning between US and UK usage For example in the USA a "land surveyor" is restricted to mean a surveyor of land for cadastral purposes, whilst in the UK it has the much wider meaning ascribed here equivalent to "geodetic surveyor"
Responsible for the parish roads, lanes and drainage ditches the most avoided post in the village Under funded, unpaid and with a labour force of usually relief men this was the post to be avoided at all costs Theoretically he could ask any employer for labourers 2 weeks every year but this help seldom materialized If a major thoroughfare passed through the village and wasn't turnpiked the job could even carry financial penalties if the road was not maintained
A surveyor is a person whose job is to survey buildings. Our surveyor warned us that the house needed totally rebuilding. see also quantity surveyor. someone whose job is to examine the condition of a building, or to measure and record the details of an area of land quantity surveyor. Any of a series of seven unmanned U.S. space probes sent to make soft landings on the Moon in 1966-68. Surveyor 2 crashed on the Moon, and radio contact with Surveyor 4 was lost minutes before landing, but the rest sent back thousands of photographs; some were equipped to sample and test lunar soil. Surveyor 6 made the first liftoff from an extraterrestrial body; Surveyor 7 landed in the lunar highlands and returned data showing that the landscape and soil there differ from those of lower areas. See also Luna; Pioneer; Ranger