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Surveyorship

Surveyorship \Sur*vey"or*ship\, n. The office of a surveyor.

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surveyorship

n. The rank or office of a surveyor.

Usage examples of "surveyorship".

To confess the truth, it was my greatest apprehension,—as it would never be a measure of policy to turn out so quiet an individual as myself, and it being hardly in the nature of a public officer to resign,—it was my chief trouble, therefore, that I was likely to grow gray and decrepit in the Surveyorship, and become much such another animal as the old Inspector.