how to pronounce census

/ˈsɛnsəs/

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census is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of census in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… according to the US Census Bureau the …”

meaning of census

A census is a statistical survey of a population.

census frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word census occurs in english on average 5.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics census can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that census can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;