n.
1.a detailed critical inspection
2.short descriptive summary (of events)
3.the act of looking or seeing or observing survey v.
1.consider in a comprehensive way
2.look over in a comprehensively, inspect
3.keep under surveillance
4.hold a review (of troops)
5.make a survey of
6.plot a map of (land)
Idiom of the Day
play (someone) off against (someone)
to scheme in a manner that pits two of your opponents against each other
Our supervisor is always trying to play one group of employees off against another group.