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📊 An official count 📊 To count officially
to census

to census

5.0
To count people in a place and record basic details like age and where they live
  • verb
  • /ˈsɛn.səs/
translation icon : censar
  • Researchers will census the bird population in the area to monitor their breeding success.

Examples

  • Every decade, the bureau census citizens to track changes in the population and living conditions.

  • We matched population sociodemographic measures from the US Census Bureau and Statistics Canada to census tracts in the study regions.

    Academic text (2011)

  • The government plans to census the population next year to gather important demographic data.

Synonyms

to survey
vsto census
83 3.2

To ask people questions to gather information for a study

is an official, complete count of a population recording detailed individual information

Compounds

Census Bureau
  • Formal
30 3.4

A United States government office that counts people and records facts about them

census taker
3 3.6

A person who visits houses to ask about the people living there

Bureau of the Census
  • Formal
1 4.6

A government agency that counts people in the United States every ten years and gives population data

census suffrage
  • Archaic
9.9

A voting system where people's votes count more if they are richer

How Complete

to census
5.0
to register
603 2.8
to survey
83 3.2

Surface Forms

census infinitive
census past
census past participle
censusing present participle
censuses third person singular

Etymology

Census comes from the Latin censere 'to count or assess'. Roman officials called censors used the verb when they recorded people and property, so to census now means to officially count or survey a group.