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
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- carry out
- conduct
- perform
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- find
- indicate
- report
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- data
- figures
- records
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- 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.