census

Pluralcensuses, censusses, census

Formscensuses, censusing, censused

1. 1
   nouncountable

   An official count of the people, or sometimes animals, living in a place, often repeated at set times.

   The country takes a census every ten years to count everyone who lives there.

   The park runs a yearly census of the wolves in the forest.

   Similarcount, headcount, enumeration

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   A count of how many things there are in a group.

   A quick census of the fridge found three eggs and some cheese.

   She did a census of her books and counted over two hundred.

   Similarcount, tally, inventory

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3. 3
   verbtransitive

   To count all the people or animals in a group or place.

   Every spring, students census the frogs in the school pond.

   The team censused every house on the island in one week.

   Similarcount, survey, enumerate

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4. 4
   verbintransitive

   To do the work of counting for a census.

   Volunteers meet at the lake every January to census.

   She spent the whole summer censusing in the mountains.

   Similarcount, survey

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5. 5
   nounhistoricalcountable

   A tax that poor farmers in the past had to pay to their lord.

   Each autumn the peasants had to pay the census to their lord.

   The lord raised the census, and many families could not pay it.

   Similarlevy, tribute

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6. 6
   nouncountable

   A count of how many small patterns are found inside a bigger pattern.

   After the pattern stopped changing, the program took a census of what was left.

   Her census found thirty small shapes inside the big pattern.

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