(~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