SURVEY


Meaning of SURVEY in English

(~ed)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

If you carry out a ~, 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 ~, overall world trade has also slackened.

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2.

If you ~ 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 ~ed 211 companies for the report...

Only 18 percent of those ~ed opposed the idea.

VERB: V n, V-ed

3.

If you ~ something, you look at or consider the whole of it carefully.

He pushed himself to his feet and ~ed the room...

VERB: V n

4.

If someone carries out a ~ 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 ~ of India...

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5.

If someone ~s 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 ~ the cliffs.

VERB: V n

6.

A ~ 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 ~ undertaken by a qualified ~or.

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7.

If someone ~s 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 ~ed the house for the mortgage.

VERB: V n

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