Census
- n. An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.
- n. A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; — usually made once in five years.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.