ordnance survey

1. 1.

   the official cartography agency of the British government

   Broaderadministrative unit

   United Kingdom

Questions about ordnance survey

What does ordnance survey mean?

ordnance survey means "the official cartography agency of the British government".

Is ordnance survey a common word?

ordnance 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.