census
noun/ˈsensəs/
/ˈsensəs/
(plural censuses)
- 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
- …
- carry out
- conduct
- perform
- …
- find
- indicate
- report
- …
- data
- figures
- records
- …
- in a/the census
Word 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.Want to learn more?
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