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# census

noun (a census, censuses)

«census» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. An official count of all the people in a country, with facts such as their ages and jobs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/census/#m1)
2. Any official count, for example of animals or birds (a bird census). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/census/#m2)

### In the lessons

In maths and geography: census data shows how many people live in a place; used in graphs and tables. In history: censuses help find families. Phrase: take a census, census data.

### Examples

- The government takes a census every ten years. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/census/#x1)
- The census showed the town had grown. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/census/#x2)
- We made a graph of census data in maths. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/census/#x3)
- Volunteers took a census of the frogs in the pond. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/census/#x4)
- The census counts everyone living in the country. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/census/#x5)
- Our class did a census of pets: 12 dogs and 9 cats. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/census/#x6)

### Note

Plural: censuses. Not the same as «consensus» (agreement) or «senses». Census numbers are counts, so they are whole numbers.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «census» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/census/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«census» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/census.html) on Mova free.