All 3 Uses of
census
in
Babbitt
- It is true that even with our 361,000, or practically 362,000, population, there are, by the last census, almost a score of larger cities in the United States.†
Chpt 14 *
- But, gentlemen, if by the next census we do not stand at least tenth, then I'll be the first to request any knocker to remove my shirt and to eat the same, with the compliments of G. F. Babbitt, Esquire!†
Chpt 14
- Oh, we have a golden roster of cities—Detroit and Cleveland with their renowned factories, Cincinnati with its great machine-tool and soap products, Pittsburg and Birmingham with their steel, Kansas City and Minneapolis and Omaha that open their bountiful gates on the bosom of the ocean-like wheatlands, and countless other magnificent sister-cities, for, by the last census, there were no less than sixty-eight glorious American burgs with a population of over one hundred thousand!†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(census) an official count of a population (often accompanied by collection of other data)