To conduct a survey is to carry out a study of what people think or what is there. A clipboard on a high street, a form emailed to four thousand addresses.
It takes of, and among for the people asked: conduct a survey of tenants, among staff. Conduct is the formal do, which is why a report uses it and a colleague says run one instead. The word covers two different jobs — asking people questions, and measuring a piece of land — and only the sentence around it tells you which is meant.
1phraseconduct a surveyTo carry out a study of what people think.
“We will conduct a survey of the whole street in March.”
conduct a survey is a piece of research into opinion.
Practised in Common Word Pairs