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census

noun
🔊/ˈsensəs/
🔊/ˈsensəs/
(plural censuses)
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  1. the process of officially counting something, especially a country’s population, and recording various facts（官方的）统计；人口普查；人口调查
    • to take a census进行人口普查
    • A national census is taken every ten years.每 10 年进行 1 次全国人口普查。
    • the questions asked in the census人口普查使用的问题
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • complete
    • federal
    • government
    • …
    verb + census
    • carry out
    • conduct
    • perform
    • …
    census + verb
    • find
    • indicate
    • report
    • …
    census + noun
    • data
    • figures
    • records
    • …
    preposition
    • in a/​the census
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    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.