census taker

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   someone who collects census data by visiting individual homes

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Questions about census taker

What does census taker mean?

census taker means "someone who collects census data by visiting individual homes".

What is another word for census taker?

Close synonyms include enumerator. 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 taker a common word?

census taker 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.