quantity surveyor:
(plural: ‘quantity surveyors‘; for the right pronunciation, please click here)
a qualified person who can estimate/can tell the builder how much material and labour it costs to construct a building,
e.g.
Every huge company hires a professional quantity surveyor to estimate the cost of constructing a new building for their new branch before ever starting work at the construction site.
Most quantity surveyors take a graduate course in building construction and then train themselves for quite some time before working on their own.
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