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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Enumerators asked people to identify as belonging to one of 214 castes listed in state records.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 22, 2024
Enumerators were sent to visit people wherever they lived or were staying — homes, apartments, hotels, Indian reservations, boats, tents and railroad cars.
From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2022
Sept. 18, 2014: Enumerators look into a ballot box as it is emptied at the count centre for the Scottish referendum in Aberdeen, Scotland.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2017
Enumerators will go to each of the estimated 5 million households to count heads, examine identification, ask about education and profession and register rates of births and deaths.
From Reuters • Jan. 16, 2010
In a Progressive Little City claiming about twice the Population that the Census Enumerators could uncover, there was a Literary Club.
From More Fables by Ade, George
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