cen‧sus /ˈsensəs/ noun (plural censuses) [countable]
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Latin; Origin: censere 'to make a judgment about, tax']

1. an official process of counting a country’s population and finding out about the people

2. an official process of counting something for government planning:
a traffic census

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census
noun
ADJ. complete, full | general, national, official | decennial | population
VERB + CENSUS carry out, conduct, take A national census is taken every ten years.
CENSUS + NOUN data, figures, records, results, return, statistics
PREP. in a/the ~ the questions asked in the census

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