| 单词 | census-table |
| 释义 | > as lemmascensus-table attributive, as in census return, census-table, census-taker; census-paper n. a paper left at each house, to be filled up with the names, ages, etc., of the inmates, and returned to the enumerators on the day of taking the census. ΚΠ 1831 J. M. Peck Guide for Emigrants 199 The census table of last autumn. 1840 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 25 Aug. 2/2 The following took place between a census taker and a married lady. 1845 J. J. Hooper Taking Census i. 149 The popular impression..caused the census-taker to be viewed in no better light than that of a tax-gatherer. 1847 J. R. McCulloch Descr. & Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire (ed. 3) I. iii. ii. 611 The number given in the census returns. 1890 Harper's Mag. Oct. 807/1 The writer met..a forlorn census-taker who had been six weeks in the saddle. 1936 Brit. Birds 29 264 To guide future census-takers through some of the difficulties. < as lemmas |
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