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单词 census
释义
census
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsen.səs/us
/ˈsen.səs/
acountforofficialpurposes,especiallyone tocountthenumberofpeoplelivingin acountryand tocollectinformationabout them:
（官方的）调查，统计；（尤指）人口普查
We have a census in thiscountryevery tenyears.我们在这个国家每10年进行一次人口普查。
She wasstoppedin hercarfor atrafficcensus.她被拦下来接受交通情况调查。
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(Definition ofcensusfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

census| American Dictionary

census
noun[C]
us
/ˈsen·səs/
politics & government
acountforofficialpurposes,esp. one tocountthenumberofpeoplelivingin acountryand toobtaininformationsuch asage,sex,race, etc.
(Definition ofcensusfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

census| Business English

census
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsensəs/us
anoccasionwhenpeopleor things areofficiallycounted,especiallywhen thepeoplein acountryorparticularareaarecountedandgeneralinformationabout them isrecorded. Thereportlistingthisinformationis also called a census:
national/state/government censusAccording to thestatecensus, 89.6% ofeligibleHispanicsvoterswereregistered.
carry out/conduct/perform a censusAnationalcensus iscarriedout every tenyears.
Data on thenumberofcommuterswascollectedin atrafficcensus.
The census of 1901 is nowavailableto besearchedonline.
(Definition ofcensusfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcensus

census
The generalizations are advanced on the basis of statistical data from the populationcensusof 1897 in combination with other quantitative and qualitative sources.
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Thecensusreturns indicate that many of those single solitaries - though some of the married ones also - were inmigrants.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The trap and its surrounding plots comprise acensusstation.
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To conduct such work, information derived from singlecensus-type listings is not sufficient.
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Both the profiles of neighborhood experience and a measure ofcensus-tract-level neighborhood hazard (poverty and violence) showed relationships to antisocial behavior.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Incensusdebates, for example, nobody ever argues that populations are inherently nonquantitative, or that demographic numbers are mere fictions.
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This was also used to define the actual (de hecho) and legal (de derecho) populations when thecensuswas taken.
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Threecensusdays were realized in each plot during the same month as captures.
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To accomplish this, we first listed the othercensustracts that surrounded each of the 177 residentialcensustracts.
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Since this measure is computed fromcensusstatistics, it is affected by differences in enumeration errors and in mortality and migration.
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Linked with marriage statistics subsequent to thecensusdate, the estimates can provide approximations to marriage rates of pregnant and/or non-pregnant non-married women.
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Many scholars have theorized on the emergence ofcensuspractices from the colonial/subject viewpoint.
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Thecensusfigures reveal not only dramatic population losses in most rural and mountain areas, but also the resulting much older age structure.
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The five baits inspected at any givencensuswere randomly selected from those baits that had not been previously examined.
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Where material from more than one source exists, thecensusdescription has been used.
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Collocationswithcensus

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These are words often used in combination withcensus.

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agricultural census
However, in the 1996agriculturalcensus, a question was asked as to 'whether the agricultural holding used pesticides or not'.
From theCambridge English Corpus
census block
Socioeconomic variables were obtained by linking addresses with 1997 census block group data.
From theCambridge English Corpus
census data
Finally, some issues arise with regard to the interpretation of thecensusdata.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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