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UK
/pˌɒpjʊlˈeɪʃən/
]
[ US /ˌpɑpjəˈɫeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌpɑpjəˈɫeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
they hired hunters to keep down the deer population -
the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.)
the African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing
people come and go, but the population of this town has remained approximately constant for the past decade -
the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals -
(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
it is an estimate of the mean of the population -
the people who inhabit a territory or state
the population seemed to be well fed and clothed
How To Use population In A Sentence
- The resettlement fee shall be calculated according to the number of agricultural population to be resettled.
- This does not exclude the existence of pockets of the urban population with unrealized homosexual desires.
- The Temple to the Hebrew God YHVH, built by King David, was destroyed and much of the Jewish population (Jew comes from the word Judah, one of the 12 tribes) were deported to Babylon, known to Jews as the Babylonian captivity. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- The added demands brought about by the ageing population will place an insupportable burden on acute hospital services.
- Though the population is still fragile, today as many as 1,000 birds overwinter in the state.
- With this evidence at hand, one might question whether the three disjunct populations warrant classification as species rather than subspecies.
- In fact - as a percentage of the population - there's basically a direct analogy between the number of gay tax-payers and the number of gay students.
- The resident population of mental hospitals has fallen by 20%.
- It cannot be a good sign that the filmmakers are largely impervious to the insecurity and suffering of wide layers of the population.
- Its population is so small that forecasts put it on the brink of extinction. Times, Sunday Times
