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Demography
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example Sentences
- For a college admissions officer, demography is destiny.
- Market research demography is a creativity buzz kill.
- Texts on world demography risk being every bit as dry as the numbers underlying explosive population growth.
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Word Origin & History
demography
1880, from Gk. demos "people" (see demotic) + English -graphy "the study of," from Gk. -graphia "description," from graphein "to write" (about).
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
demography de·mog·ra·phy (dĭ-mŏg'rə-fē)
n.
The study of the characteristics of human populations, such as size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics.
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American Heritage
Cultural Dictionary
demography [(di-mog-ruh-fee)]The quantitative study of human populations. Demographers study subjects such as the geographical distribution of people, birth and death rates, socioeconomic status, and age and sex distributions in order to identify the influences on population growth, structure, and development.
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