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surveyor

noun as in civil engineer

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"My family has had a working dairy farm on the site for generations and we wanted to do something else with the surrounding land," said the 60-year-old former commercial surveyor.

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She works alongside quantity surveyor Jack Little, who combined an apprenticeship with a degree at the University of South Wales and now "luckily" works five minutes from his house.

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Caring for Juno required Ms Davies to give up her career as a building surveyor, where she specialised in designing home adaptations for families with disabled children.

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In the late 19th century, a federal effort to send surveyors throughout the state to create reservations for California mission tribes began in San Diego but lost steam by the time it reached Los Angeles.

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They hired incompetents as surveyors, so don’t stand on the street and tell me where I can and can’t put my trash can, because the boundaries are rigged and I’m having them rewritten.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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