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BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census; provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States
Synonyms:
Bureau of the Census; Census Bureau
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Bureau of the Census" is a kind of...):
agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)
Holonyms ("Bureau of the Census" is a part of...):
Commerce; Commerce Department; Department of Commerce; DoC (the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913)