CENSUS BUREAU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Census Bureau mean? 

• CENSUS BUREAU (noun)
  The noun CENSUS BUREAU has 1 sense:

1. the bureau of the Commerce Department responsible for taking the census; provides demographic information and analyses about the population of the United States

  Familiarity information: CENSUS BUREAU used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CENSUS BUREAU (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Bureau of the Census; Census Bureau

Hypernyms ("Census Bureau" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Holonyms ("Census Bureau" 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)