释义 |
census taker in American Englishnouna person who gathers information for a census Word origin [1830–40, Amer.]Examples of 'census taker' in a sentencecensus taker I remember being troubled in conscience about declaring myself a farmer to the census-taker.Because they shared names across generations, they had confounded the census-takers.Other towns have become ghostly, with census-takers arriving to find no one left.The government hired 411,000 temporary and low-paid census takers, bringing the total knocking on doors to 564,000. |