the process of officially counting something, especially a country’s population, and recording various facts (官方的)统计;人口普查;人口调查 to take a census 进行人口普查 A national census is taken every ten years. 每 10 年进行 1 次全国人口普查。 the questions asked in the census 人口普查使用的问题
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Word Originearly 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.