census

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/ˈsɛnsəs/

noun

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noun
An official count of the people in a country or area.
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Extra detail
A type of tax levied by feudal lords on peasants.

Examples

"Trasianka" will be equalized with Belarusian language during the census.
In the United States, there is a census every ten years.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5

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noun

Extra meanings

Count, tally.
An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.

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In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included ...
Each page of the schedule was crossruled with 8 lines, capable of censussing 8 individuals.
Indeed, none of the recorded characteristics of buildings nor their location affected our counts of breeding Sparrows, which appeared to be distributed rather homogeneously across the urban areas we censused.

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The government conducts a national blank every ten years to count every resident.

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Each page of the schedule was crossruled with 8 lines, capable of censussing 8 individuals.
1893, Census of India, 1891, volume 23, page 347
Indeed, none of the recorded characteristics of buildings nor their location affected our counts of breeding Sparrows, which appeared to be distributed rather homogeneously across the urban areas we censused.
2008, Pierandrea Brichetti et al., “Recent declines in urban Italian Sparrow Passer (domesticus) italiae populations in northern Italy”, in Ibis, page 179, column 2
My initiation to waterfowl censussing took place in the early days of the A.W.E., as it is familiarly known, when I served as a junior to one of the ablest of the Witwatersrand pioneers, Royce Reed. The method used must remain one of the three basic methods of Transvaal waterfowl censussing, although it has certain inherent limitations.
1965, Fauna & Flora, page 46
For 14 individuals, eight censusses per daily period were performed within two weeks (32 censusses per individual), each time recording the coordinates of location. The territories of the individuals were defined as the area defended successfully against conspecifics by agonistic and/or non-agonistic behaviour, as described by Wickler (1969) and Nelissen (1976). The locations of the territories were determined from censussing; their sizes were estimated by behavioural observations.
1995, Netherlands Journal of Zoology, volume 45, page 390
As you know, the Imperium has never been able to take a census of the Fremen. Everyone thinks that there are but few wandering here and there in the desert. My Lord, I suspect an incredible secret has been kept on this planet: that the Fremen exist in vast numbers- vast- and it is they who control Arrakis.
1984, 43:03 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), spoken by Reverend Mother Ramallo, →OCLC

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Origin

noun

Borrowed from Latin cēnsus, from cēnseō. See censor.

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noun

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The government conducts a national blank— every ten years to count every resident.

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noun

The government conducts a national blank every ten years to count every resident.