survey
♦♦ sur|vey (surveys surveying surveyed)
The noun is pronounced /s'ɜːrveɪ/ The verb is pronounced /sərv'eɪ/ and can also be pronounced /s'ɜːrveɪ/in meanings 2 and 5.
1 [N-COUNT]
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.
2 [VERB] V n, V-ed
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.
3 [VERB] V n
If you survey something, you look at or consider the whole of it carefully.
He pushed himself to his feet and surveyed the room...
4 [N-COUNT]
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...
5 [VERB] V n
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.
6 [N-COUNT]
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.
7 [VERB] V n
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.
The noun is pronounced /s'ɜːrveɪ/ The verb is pronounced /sərv'eɪ/ and can also be pronounced /s'ɜːrveɪ/in meanings 2 and 5.
1 [N-COUNT]
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.
2 [VERB] V n, V-ed
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.
3 [VERB] V n
If you survey something, you look at or consider the whole of it carefully.
He pushed himself to his feet and surveyed the room...
4 [N-COUNT]
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...
5 [VERB] V n
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.
6 [N-COUNT]
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.
7 [VERB] V n
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.