exploratory survey

1. 1.

   exploring in order to gain information

   “scouting in enemy territory is very dangerous”

   Synonymsscoutingreconnoiteringreconnoitring

   Broaderreconnaissance

Questions about exploratory survey

What does exploratory survey mean?

exploratory survey means "exploring in order to gain information".

What is another word for exploratory survey?

Close synonyms include scouting, reconnoitering, reconnoitring. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is exploratory survey a common word?

exploratory survey is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.