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censusing

censusing is the present participle and gerund of census.

Meaning of census

Verb

census (third-person singular simple present censuses or censusses, present participle censusing or censussing, simple past and past participle censused or censussed)

  1. (transitive) To conduct a census on.
    • Each page of the schedule was crossruled with 8 lines, capable of censussing 8 individuals.1893, Census of India, 1891, volume 23, page 347
  2. (intransitive) To collect a census.
    • My initiation to waterfowl censussing took place in the early days of the A.W.E., as it is familiarly known, when I served as a junior to one of the ablest of the Witwatersrand pioneers, Royce Reed. The method used must remain one of the three basic methods of Transvaal waterfowl censussing...1965, Fauna & Flora, page 46

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Questions about censusing

What is censusing the present participle and gerund of?
Censusing is the present participle and gerund of census.

Words near censusing in the dictionary

  1. census tract
  2. census-designated place
  3. census-designated places
  4. censused
  5. censuses
  6. censusing
  7. censussed
  8. censusses
  9. censussing
  10. cent
  11. cent percent

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