The noun is pronounced /sɜ:(r)veɪ/. The verb is pronounced /sə(r)veɪ/ and can also be pronounced /sɜ:(r)veɪ/ in meanings 2 and 5.
( surveyed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you carry out a survey , you try to find out detailed information about a lot of different people or things, usually by asking people a series of questions.
According to the survey, overall world trade has also slackened.
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2.
If you survey a number of people, companies, or organizations, you try to find out information about their opinions or behaviour, usually by asking them a series of questions.
Business Development Advisers surveyed 211 companies for the report...
Only 18 percent of those surveyed opposed the idea.
VERB : V n , V-ed
3.
If you survey something, you look at or consider the whole of it carefully.
He pushed himself to his feet and surveyed the room...
VERB : V n
4.
If someone carries out a survey of an area of land, they examine it and measure it, usually in order to make a map of it.
...the organizer of the geological survey of India...
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5.
If someone surveys an area of land, they examine it and measure it, usually in order to make a map of it.
Scarborough Council commissioned geological experts earlier this year to survey the cliffs.
VERB : V n
6.
A survey is a careful examination of the condition and structure of a house, usually carried out in order to give information to a person who wants to buy it. ( mainly BRIT; in AM, use inspection )
...a structural survey undertaken by a qualified surveyor.
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7.
If someone surveys a house, they examine it carefully and report on its structure, usually in order to give advice to a person who is thinking of buying it. ( mainly BRIT; in AM, use inspect )
...the people who surveyed the house for the mortgage.
VERB : V n