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Date: 1600-1700
Language: Latin
Origin: censere 'to make a judgment about, tax'

census

 noun
     
cen‧sus plural censuses [countable]
1 an official process of counting a country's population and finding out about the people
2 an official process of counting something for government planning:
a traffic census
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