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an official count of a population (often accompanied by collection of other data)- It is difficult to count all the homeless when performing the census.
- Texas is expected to gain seats in Congress after the next census.
- In the following year the government was going to take a census, including the contaminated zones if possible.Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
- No Capitation, or other direct Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
- The estimates most often cited are based on a census conducted by the Belgians near the end of colonization.Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
- Especially since the last census.John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
- Someone answered the door, and the family, thinking that he was a census taker, invited him in.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- Roscoe, New York, is a hamlet in New York State, which according to a recent census contains 261 households.John Green -- Paper Towns
- Last week's census showed about two thirds of those'd been recalled in the past month or so.Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
- We discussed how I was to be fed and how I should manage about the census when it took place next day.Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
- It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible catastrophe, instituted a kind of mysterious census.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- Amongst civilized nations it is easy to obtain an accurate census of the inhabitants; but the two others cannot be determined with so much facility.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
- It had 162 inhabitants in 1950 and 124 at the last census—and so much for the population explosion at Alice.John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
- An actual census or enumeration of the people must furnish the rule, a circumstance which effectually shuts the door to partiality or oppression.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
- The population will be determined by a census.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
- Though nominally included in the census of Christendom, he was still an alien to it.Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- Farmer began modestly, with a preliminary health census.Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
- "Just taking a census," Bellamy replied.Kass Morgan -- The 100
- No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.United States 'Founding Fathers' -- The Constitution of the United States
- Just a lot of kids and some older folks who haven't had a job or a haircut since the last census.Junot Diaz -- Drown
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