Census Noun - Definition, Pictures, Pronunciation And Usage Notes

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Definition of census noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

census noun  /ˈsensəs/  /ˈsensəs/(plural censuses) jump to other results

1. the process of officially counting something, especially a country’s population, and recording various facts
   • to take a census
   • A national census is taken every ten years.
   • the questions asked in the census
   Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
   • complete
   • federal
   • government
   • …
   verb + census
   • carry out
   • conduct
   • perform
   • …
   census + verb
   • find
   • indicate
   • report
   • …
   census + noun
   • data
   • figures
   • records
   • …
   preposition
   • in a/​the census
   See full entryWord Originearly 17th cent. (denoting a poll tax): from Latin, applied to the registration of citizens and property in ancient Rome, usually for taxation, from censere ‘assess’. The current sense dates from the mid 18th cent.

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Nearby words

• censure noun
• censure verb
• census noun
• cent noun
• cent. abbreviation

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