enumerator
Britishnoun
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a person or thing that enumerates
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a person who compiles the voting list for an area
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a person who issues and retrieves forms during a census of population
Example Sentences
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Next door, the enumerator recorded Joseph F. Curtis, a mail carrier, and next door to him a truck driver, Alfred Travers, his wife, Ada, and their nine children.
From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2022
Norman was a meter technician in a shoe machine factory, the Census enumerator reported.
From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2022
Instead, the enumerator left a paper questionnaire, with a cover letter instructing the residents to mail it back.
From Science Magazine • Jul. 24, 2017
A David Walker speech is always worth listening to with care, for Mr. Walker is a reliable and thorough enumerator of popular deficit-scare themes.
From Salon • Feb. 11, 2011
In the pendulum, the earth's gravitation acting alone as an enumerator of passing moments; for the momentum conferred by motion is after all but a secondary result, an offspring of the earth's attraction.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 418 Volume 17, New Series, January 3, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
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