census taker

noun

Origin of census taker

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

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You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker.
A Preface to Politics
Walter Lippmann
The Italians were in the majority where this census-taker went.
The Battle with the Slum
Jacob A. Riis.
Says the census-taker once in ten years, Can you write English?
Talks to Freshman Girls
Helen Dawes Brown
I promised the census-taker not to tell till his report came out.
Dr. Breen's Practice
William Dean Howells
It still claimed 1300 inhabitants as estimated and engraved on the stone court-house by the census-taker in 1597.
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O. Henry