| 释义 | census taker in American Englishnouna person who gathers information for a censusWord origin[ 1830–40, Amer.]I remember being troubled in conscience about declaring myself a farmer to the census-taker.Because they shared names across generations, they had confounded the census-takers.Other towns have become ghostly, with census-takers arriving to find no one left.The government hired 411,000 temporary and low-paid census takers, bringing the total knocking on doors to 564,000.Examples of 'census taker' in a sentencecensus taker |