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survey | American Dictionary

survey
noun[ C ]
us/ˈsɜr·veɪ/

surveynoun[C] (QUESTIONS)

a set of questions people are asked to gather information or find out their opinions, or the information gathered by asking many people the same questions:
A recent survey found that working women want better child care and flexible hours.

surveynoun[C] (MEASURING)

the measuring and recording of the details of an area of land:
Geological surveys are an important tool used in locating oil reserves.

surveynoun[C] (EXAMINING)

a description of the whole of a subject:
His new book is a survey of contemporary Latin American architecture.
survey
verb[ T ]
us/sərˈveɪ, ˈsɜr·veɪ/

surveyverb[T] (LOOK AT)

to look at or examine all of something:
After we’d finished painting the kitchen, we stood back and surveyed our work.

surveyverb[T] (MEASURE)

to measure and describe the details of an area of land:
The property must be surveyed before you can buy it.

surveyverb[T] (ASK QUESTIONS)

to ask people questions in order to find out about their opinions and behavior:
Researchers surveyed the political opinions of 2000 college students.

survey | Business English

survey
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈsɜːveɪ/us
MARKETING
an examination of people's opinions, behaviour, etc. made, for example, by asking them questions:
a survey finds/reveals/showsA survey of 584 companies has found that there is no relationship between a company's sales incentive plan structure and its gain or loss in market share.
conduct/carry out/do a surveyWe should conduct a survey to find out what our customers really want.
PROPERTY
the measuring and recording of the details of an area of land:
A detailed survey of the building plot has already been carried out.
PROPERTY UK(US inspection)
an examination of the structure of a building by a specially trained person to check what condition it is in:
We should schedule an independent survey of the property before we agree to buy it.
The survey revealed a number of problems that will have to be repaired.
survey
verb[ T ]
uk /səˈveɪ/us
MARKETING
to ask people questions in order to find out about their opinions or behaviour:
The researchers surveyed the attitudes of 2,500 night shift workers.
to look at or examine all of something in detail:
She has written a book which surveys the history of the PR industry.
PROPERTY
to measure an area of land and to record the details of it:
The land will have to be surveyed in detail before the building project can begin.
PROPERTY UK(US inspect)
when a building is surveyed, it is examined carefully by a specially trained person, to see what condition it is in:
We had the house surveyed.

Examples of survey

survey
But the evidence of surveys suggests that employees frequently do not exercise much choice at all over their health plans.
Both authors advocate an eclectic mix of quantitative survey and qualitative interviews for the study of current rural labour transformations.
More in-depth, qualitative interviews may be more useful than surveys, especially to examine attitudes toward presumed consent as a term.
The following text gives a survey of the qualitative and quantitative patterns in the error corpus.
Given the qualitative nature of the survey, the results were interpreted and put in relation to existing estimates in the literature.
He surveys the sacred meals against a carefully assembled background of ordinary meal-taking and the general philosophy of food in each region.
Individual ocelots were photographed as many as 17 times during the cumulative 2-y survey period, though many were recorded only once.
Eighty-three of the 91 (91%) surveyed oncologists returned the questionnaire.
This is a large professional group in primary care and was not adequately represented in the questionnaire survey.
A second relevant concern here is whether we can treat the 901 respondents in our sample as a random subset of all survey participants.
Consequently, elderly participants were not recruited as the survey content would have been irrelevant.
The core of the material is presented in sufficient detail that the survey may serve as a text for teaching constrained global optimization.
After an introductory chapter, they survey the concept in a concise, general and convincing way, which could readily be transferred to almost any natural resource.
For studies such as surveys of farmer practice or multidisciplinary trials involving whole systems, plots are unlikely to be relevant.
Such examples from the linguistic literature could be multiplied, but a survey of different types of incoherence may only increase the confusion.
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Collocations withsurvey

survey

These are words often used in combination with survey.

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annual survey
An annual survey started in 1971.
archaeological survey
They may give a casual visitor an impression of the scope of the factory operation, but the details needed by an archaeological survey have gone.
brief survey
As has been seen in this brief survey, these categories acknowledge some, but not all, of the wonderful variety of material definitions the specification yields.
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