USCB
- noun
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USCB
- The USCB's statistics on trade help inform government policy regarding tariffs and imports.
Examples
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According to the USCB, there has been a steady increase in the number of immigrants entering the United States.
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The USCB published a report detailing changes in the U.S. population and demographics.
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Manufacturing had concentrated in the older urban counties or in older, smaller cities (USCB 1973).
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The United States now consumes a little more than 100 quads of fossil energy annually (USCB 2007).
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In the Northern Piedmont, the size of an average household fell from 3.2 persons in 1970 to 2.7 persons in 2000 (GeoLytics 1999; USCB 2003).
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Almost everyone in the city is from somewhere else; in fact, only 21.2 percent of the people living in southern Nevada in 2009 were born in the state, whereas 58.7 percent of all Americans were born in their state of residence (USCB 2010).
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Between 2000 and 2050, the US population is projected to increase from 275 million to 403 million (USCB 2000), while the global population is expected to increase from 6 billion to almost 9 billion (UN 2003).
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In 2010, Asians (alone, not in combination with other races) represented 4.8 percent of the U.S. population, a 43.3 percent increase from the 2000 Census data (U.S. Census Bureau USCB, 2010a).
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A subgroup of these, on the edge of the expanding metropolitan Washington, D.C., area in Virginia (Loudoun-Prince William-Manassas City), had a substantially lower median age compared with the national average (USCB 2003), meaning that portions of the ecoregion appear to be attractive to younger families.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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3.8
A government office that checks and taxes goods entering a country
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3.9
A government office that checks goods entering a country and collects taxes on them
A government office that inspects and taxes goods brought into a country
Surface Forms
Etymology
USCB is an abbreviation of United States Customs Bureau, which was the government 'office' that checked goods at the border and collected import taxes. So, when you see USCB, think of the old agency that inspected shipments and enforced customs rules.