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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Each census enumerator is identified by credentials in the form of an official U. S. document headed "Certificate of Appointment as Enumerator, and of Authority Thereunder."
From Time Magazine Archive
There is a Minister to be appointed to the Irish Free State, an Enumerator of Seals for the Pribilof Islands.
From Time Magazine Archive
It may be here mentioned that the temple of Zeus the Enumerator, in Sicyon, was referred to the establishment of the tribes, Bekker's Anecd.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried
The Census is the sword that shatters secrecy, the key that opens trebly-guarded doors; the Enumerator is vested with the Nation's greatest right—the Right To Know—and on his findings all battle-lines depend.
From The Boy With the U.S. Census by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis
And here I may say that the title of the subordinate officer intrusted with the addition of my household to the compilation of the Census pleased me greatly—"Appointed Enumerator" was distinctly good.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891 by Various
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