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  • noun Plural form of surveyor.

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Examples

  • Besides these people there were certain surveyors, architects, military topographers and at least one gifted clergyman.

    Two Views of Canadian Art 1925

  • Having made his name keeping surveyors alive, he began to ride with the new ranging companies, who were often the same people who went out to guard surveying teams.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • I come from a long line of mine and land surveyors, which is where I get my somewhat skeptical view of precious metals and related infrastructure.

    Scripting News for 9/17/07 « Scripting News Annex 2007

  • There had latterly been created in the service a new body of officers called surveyors 'clerks.

    Autobiography of Anthony Trollope Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1883

  • There had latterly been created in the service a new body of officers called surveyors 'clerks.

    Autobiography of Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope 1848

  • However, they said that in the short term the surveyors 'valuations could help bring stability to property prices.

    unknown title 2009

  • To augment the number of persons employed in the administration of the state, he devised several new offices; such as surveyors of the public buildings, of the roads, the aqueducts, and the bed of the Tiber; for the distribution of corn to the people; the praefecture of the city;

    De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • To augment the number of persons employed in the administration of the state, he devised several new offices; such as surveyors of the public buildings, of the roads, the aqueducts, and the bed of the Tiber; for the distribution of corn to the people; the praefecture of the city;

    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • The letters were on the desk with David's watch, but there still remained a calf-bound notebook, such as surveyors use in field work.

    The Rim of the Desert Ada Woodruff Anderson

  • There had latterly been created in the service a new body of officers called surveyors’ clerks.

    An Autobiography 2004

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