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census-designated place

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.91 in modern English

Syllables
cen-sus-des-ig-nat-ed -place
IPA
30
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
7
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A place containing a concentration of population, defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only; it is not a municipality, but either a subset of one or spanning into several.

American usage

Usage

Inflected Forms

census-designated places (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

incorporated place municipality unorganized territory

Synonyms

CDP

Questions

What does census-designated place mean?
A place containing a concentration of population, defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only; it is not a municipality, but either a subset of one or spanning into several.

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