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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES survey/census data (= produced in a survey or census ) ▪ Survey data show that people’s participation in sports rises with their level of income. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE national ▪ A national census has ...
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A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population . It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population ...
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n. An official count of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals. vb. To collect a census.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Census \Cen"sus\, n. [L. census, fr. censere. See Censor .] (Bot. Antiq.) A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years. An official registration of the number of the ...
Usage examples of census.
Very little careful examination would have sufficed to find, in the second section of the very first article of the Constitution, the names of every one of the thirteen then existent States distinctly mentioned, with the number of representatives to which each would be entitled, in case of acceding to the Constitution, until a census of their population could be taken.
Setting aside these theories, however, the census of French centenarians is not devoid of interest in some of its details.
Costa Rica days who knew a woman who knew a man who had a freemartin neuter companion who had formerly belonged to someone high up in the Census Department.
For all Hiro knows, this hypercard might contain all the books in the Library of Congress, or every episode of Hawaii Five-O that was ever filmed, or the complete recordings of Jimi Hendrix, or the 1950 Census.
Later, Jaschke would feed the data to Kindy, and Kindy might be able to see connections between the census data and his own observations.
The unofficial census estimated that there were another 50,000 Loonies living off in the hills.
The census taken by order of Meules in 1686 gives a total of 885 persons, of whom 592 were at Port Royal, and 127 at Beaubassin.
Chokoloskee boys called me mulatta, and they got that put down in the 1880 census.
My Mary, she tells our kids I am Indin, but when we are drunk and get to scrapping, she likes to recall how her daddy swore I was mulatta, and got that writ for all to see right on the 1880 census.
The last state census accords to Pocock Island a population of 311, mostly engaged in the porgy fisheries.
Madison was so strict a separationist, in fact, that he even opposed counting clergy as part of the first census.
Bureau of the Census report, the poorest community in the United States is Shannon County, South Dakota, followed by Starr, Texas, and Tunica, Mississippi.
According to the Wisk 1995 Cleaning Census, 38 percent of Americans who do laundry at least once a month are very or somewhat worried that home entertaining may ruin their possessions.
Thus all the men who qualified at the census as knights were accommodated within the First Class.
The thin margin of their prosperity and the absurdity of calling them exploiters was revealed in Soviet census data examined by Richard Pipes, showing that only 2 percent of peasant households had any hired help, and these averaged one employee each.