Both Uses
census
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The Tipping Point
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- Jonathan Crane, a sociologist at the University of Illinois, has looked at the effect the number of role models in a community — the professionals, managers, teachers whom the Census Bureau has defined as "high status" — has on the lives of teenagers in the same neighborhood.†
Chpt Intr.census = an official count of a population
- Had Revere been given a list of 250 surnames drawn at random from the Boston census of 1775, there is no question he would have scored well over 100.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(census) an official count of a population (often accompanied by collection of other data)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)