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sur|vey|or
sur|vey|or «suhr VAY uhr», noun.
1. a person who surveys, especially one who surveys land: »

The surveyor set up his transit and began to make a survey of the road.

2. U.S. a customs official with the duty of determining the quantity or value of commodities brought into a port from another country.
3. British. a) a quantity surveyor. b) Archaic. an architect, especially one in charge of construction.

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