nosecount

American

[nohz-kount] / ˈnoʊzˌkaʊnt /

noun

Informal.

the counting of individual persons, as for a census.

Etymology

Origin of nosecount

First recorded in 1935–40; nose + count ¹

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Neither wind nor rain nor flagpole-sitters stopped most of the nation's 140,000 census enumerators last week, but the biggest nosecount in U.S. history was not without its moments of travail.

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