censusing
- 1Present participle and gerund of census.
The team compared several censusing methods for mountain lions, from camera traps to track counts.
Volunteers spent the weekend censusing nesting seabirds along the coast.
Note
The noun census turned into a verb, and its -ing form is at home in wildlife work, where the population counted need not be human: Kevin Hansen's Bobcat: Master of Survival weighs different censusing methods for bobcats. The verb takes an object (censusing nesting seabirds) or stands alone (volunteers spent May censusing). Placed before a noun, as in censusing methods, the gerund works like a modifier.
censusing is a form of census
census, verb: To carry out a census of a population or an area. Full entry
- Spelling
- census → censusing: add -ing
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