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census

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈsɛnsəs

Definitions

  1. An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals
  2. An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
  3. Count, tally
  4. Count, tally.
  5. A type of tax levied by feudal lords on peasants
  6. A type of tax levied by feudal lords on peasants.
  7. A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah
  8. A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.
  9. To conduct a census on

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Examples

“As you know⟳, the Imperium has never been able to take⟳ a census of the Fremen. Everyone thinks that there are but few wandering here and there in the desert. My Lord, I suspect⟳ an incredible secret has been kept on this planet: that the Fremen exist⟳ in vast numbers- vast- and it is they who control⟳ Arrakis.”
“In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included ...”

CEFR level

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