census

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

cen·sus [census censuses censused censusing] BrE [ˈsensəs] NAmE [ˈsensəs] noun (pl. cen·suses)
the process of officially counting sth, especially a country's population, and recording various facts
•to take a census

Word Origin:
early 17th cent. (denoting a poll tax): from Latin, applied to the registration of citizens and property in ancient Rome, usually for taxation, from censere ‘assess’. The current sense dates from the mid 18th cent.

Example Bank:
•A national census is taken every ten years.
•the questions asked in the census

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  nose count, nosecount