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census Noun pl -suses an official periodic count of a population including such information as sex, age, and occupation [Latin censere to assess]
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Translations n census [ˈsensəs] an official counting especially of a country's inhabitants When was the last census in Britain? sensus إحْصاء السُّكّان преброяване на населението sčítání lidu folketælling die Volkszählung απογραφή censo rahvaloendus سرشماری laskenta recensement מִפקָד אוּכלוִּסין जनगणना popis stanovništva népszámlálás cacah jiwa, sensus manntal censimento 人口調査 인구 조사 surašymas (iedzīvotāju) skaitīšana banci volkstelling folketelling, manntall; (opp)telling spis censo recensământ перепись (населения) sčítanie ľudu popis (prebivalstva) popis stanovništva folkräkning การสำรวจจำนวนประชากร sayım 人口調查;人口普查 перепис مردم شماری sự điều tra dân số 人口调查;人口普查 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But a wiser man has arisen--the census taker--and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million. Though so short a period ago --not a good life-time --the census of the buffalo in Illinois exceeded the census of men now in London, and though at the present day not one horn or hoof of them remains in all that region; and though the cause of this wondrous extermination was the spear of man; yet the far different nature of the whale-hunt peremptorily forbids so inglorious an end to the Leviathan. But Plato, in his treatise of Laws, thinks that a difference in circumstances should be permitted to a certain degree; but that no citizen should be allowed to possess more than five times as much as the lowest census, as we have already mentioned. |
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