census bureau

1. 1.

   the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census; provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States

   SynonymsBureau of the Census

   Broaderagency

   Part ofDepartment of Commerce

Questions about census bureau

What does census bureau mean?

census bureau means "the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census; provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States".

What is another word for census bureau?

Close synonyms include Bureau of the Census. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is census bureau a common word?

census bureau is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.