census taker
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of census taker
An Americanism dating back to 1830–40
Example Sentences
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Minnesota also had the highest rate of residents who answered the census questionnaire on their own without needing prompting from a census taker visiting their home.
From Washington Times ● May 8, 2023
He went on to work as a truck driver, jewelry salesman, dress salesman, dock worker, census taker and reporter for The Bridgeport Post.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2023
When the census taker drives through the colony in his truck, incongruously blaring a Monkees song, all of the other women ignore his megaphone instructions to come out and be recorded.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2023
The father, who narrates the novel, rejects treatment and signs up to be a census taker, a means of spending his final season traveling with his son.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2018
Even though Miss Ella Pearl, Miss Trotter’s mother, was as colored as my mother, she told the census taker to write ‘Indian.’
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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