(n.) One who prospects; especially, one who explores a region for minerals and precious metals.
Example Sentences:
(1) The village is situated inside a nature reserve in the Ituri rainforest, an area covering 5,000 square miles that is supposed to be off limits to hunters and gold prospectors.
(2) Or if there are, they are meaningless and entirely ineffective; they might, in fact, just as well not be lying about at all until the prospector - the journalist - puts them into relation with other facts: presents them in other words.
(3) Lord Browne, the former chief executive of BP and now chairman of Cuadrilla, one of the UK's main shale prospectors, is an adviser to the government.
(4) Previous probes have included Lunar Prospector, which studied the moon's geology; Stardust, which returned a sample of material scooped from a comet's tail; and Mars Pathfinder, which deployed a tiny motorised robot vehicle on the Red Planet in 1997.
(5) Those irate British nimbys, along with the green groups who want to leave fossil fuels in the ground, are quite capable of making life miserable for the shale prospectors.
(6) It was a separate award to the AMEC awards, which include a media award and a prospector award,” an AMEC spokeswoman told Guardian Australia.
(7) Steve McIntyre, a Canadian former minerals prospector and climate sceptic who has analysed the data, suggests that one tree, known as YAD06, could be " the most influential tree in the world ".
(8) Folks say there’s a cabin of an old-time gold prospector up there still exactly as he left it.
(9) High risk groups included persons of such professions as forestry workers, truck and tractor drivers, oil workers and prospectors, livestock breeders, builders.
(10) Prospectors (28%) like success, ambition, seek the esteem of others and if they think a party can help them help themselves, they are on board.
(11) Palm oil risk to Africa as prospectors eye swaths of land Read more That’s all supposing the company can deliver, of course.
(12) The results of the study underline the importance of making available more prospectors in the district of Dresden to meet the expanding tasks of the clinically active pathologist in autopsy and biopsy diagnostic efforts.
(13) Born Jeane Jordan, in Oklahoma, she was the daughter of an itinerant and unsuccessful oil prospector.
(14) With so many prospectors on the lookout for so long, you're unlikely to find gem-quality shards of the blue-green stone just lying around, but the hills are a worthy destination on their own for the spectacular high-desert hiking and wild west lore.
(15) If he does win, it will be painful for bookmakers as three-quarters of all money backed has been for the writer who has been shortlisted three times (Flaubert's Parrot, England, England and Arthur and George) but never won.The wild card on the list is DeWitt, who tells the story of Charlie and Eli Sisters, two assassins who work for the shadowy "Commodore", and who travel from Oregon to California on the trail of a prospector called Hermann Kermit Warm.
(16) Instead, they have used psychological profiling around values, dividing the electorate into three “tribes”: pioneers, motivated by ethics and inner fulfilment, prospectors, motivated by “getting on”, and settlers, a socially conservative group motivated by security and safety.
(17) "Virunga's rich natural resources are for the benefit of the Congolese people, not for foreign oil prospectors to drain away.
(18) In 1896, after pair of prospectors discovered gold along a tributary of the Klondike River, an estimated 100,000 Americans and Canadians tried to climb over the Coast mountains of Alaska and British Columbia and boat down the Yukon river in an effort to find a fortune of their own.
(19) "The question is which politician can harness the Pioneer, the Prospector and the Settler in a convincing way."
(20) And Gammell may soon also be one of Britain's most successful oil prospectors, striking it rich in regions where the world's largest energy companies found dry rock.
Surveyor
Definition:
(n.) One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector.
(n.) One who views and examines for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, quantity, or quality of anything; as, a surveyor of highways, ordnance, etc.
(n.) One who surveys or measures land; one who practices the art of surveying.
(n.) An officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; a gauger.
(n.) In the United States, an officer whose duties include the various measures to be taken for ascertaining the quantity, condition, and value of merchandise brought into a port.
Example Sentences:
(1) Responses to a monthly survey of 450-500 surveyors (usually 250-300 reply).
(2) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(3) The affordability and availability of homes in the UK “is now a national emergency” the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) said, as it warned that measures such as extending right-to-buy would prevent the new government reaching its target of 1m more homes by 2020.
(4) Surveyors who had been predicting that London would see price increases of 9% a year over the next five years had revised that down to just under 5%, while on a national level the forecast has edged down to 5%.
(5) Even six months ago few people outside Westminster’s building surveyors could have imagined removal as a serious possibility.
(6) The company has created an apprenticeship programme for surveyors as an alternative to university, although it also increased graduate recruits last year.
(7) Richard Sexton, director of business development at surveyor e.surv , said the CML figures masked the true picture of what was happening to the housing market nationwide: "It is bad news that overall house purchase lending was so weak in July, but the good news is that it has not turned out to be a UK-wide phenomenon.
(8) The surveyor is proud to announce, "I can assure my readers that Walden has a reasonably tight bottom at a not unreasonable, though at an unusual, depth."
(9) Further evidence of the accelerating housing market emerged on Monday when surveyors said they were more optimistic about the prospects for increasing sales than at any point in the last 14 years.
(10) Housing is a key issue and this does not give me any confidence that the department has a grip on its own figures.” Jeremy Blackburn, head of policy at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, said: “The NAO report has shown what was suspected by many.
(11) The group says new buyer enquiries in England and Wales rose for the third month in a row in January, with 16% more chartered surveyors reporting a rise as opposed to a fall.
(12) There is an added element of uncertainty as we wait to see the impact of tax changes on the buy-to-let sector.” The figures are backed up by the latest monthly survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics), which found the market was “unusually buoyant” in December.
(13) The balance of surveyors saying prices rose compared to those recording a fall stood at +9 percentage points in March, down from +18 points in February.
(14) Meanwhile, figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) published this week suggested interest from potential buyers is increasing.
(15) Although the housing market appears to have slowed, there seems to be no let-up in rising rents, and the most recent monthly report by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors predicted that they would rise at a faster pace than house prices over the next five years.
(16) In commercial property little impact was expected from events in China, says Jeff Matsu, senior economist at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
(17) Simon Rubinsohn, economist for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics), says: “Yields have been compressed and returns aren’t as attractive as they were.
(18) The average number of completed sales slipped, the number of properties up for sale fell back, and surveyors reported fewer buyer enquiries.
(19) Among the most important landlord firms Southern Cross will have to win over to survive is London & Regional, the investment empire of former optician Ian Livingstone and his chartered surveyor brother Richard.
(20) Simon Rubinsohn, chief economist at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, said the latest figures were "more evidence that the housing market is stabilising.