adj
Meaning 1
Of or pertaining to demography.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
demographic
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˌdɛm.əˈɡɹæf.ɪk/
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Australian: /ˌdem.əˈɡɹæf.ɪk/
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noun
Meaning 2
A demographic criterion: a characteristic used to classify people for statistical purposes, such as age, race, or gender.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-plural
Examples
- 1985, Richard I. Henderson, Compensation Management: Rewarding Performance, Fourth Edition, Reston Pub. Co., →ISBN, page 604, Of significant current interest is the fact that the compa-ratio can be used to analyze the pay treatment of specific groups of employees. Segregating employees by such demographics as gender, race, or age group (e.g., 18–25, 26–39, 40–50, 51–65), a compa-ratio analysis could provide a first indication [...]
- 2000, James Chapman, “Impact of Building Roads to Everywhere”, in Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres (eds.), Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta, Island Press, →ISBN, page 82, How will this investment affect at the individual level, based on being disaggregated by various demographics (race and ethnicity, gender, age, disability, income) and locations (inner city, inner ring suburbs, suburbs, exurbs), miles traveled, travel time, accessibility to transit, and car ownership?
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noun
Meaning 3
A demographic group: a collection of people sharing a value for a certain demographic criterion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 2002, Laura Grindstaff, ‘Pretty Woman with a Gun: La Femme Nikita and the Textual Politics of “The Remake”’, in Jennifer Forrest and Leonard R. Koos (eds.), Dead Ringers: The Remake in Theory and Practice, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 281, [...] it was also the initial verdict for the Nikita television series before the show garnered something of a cult following among the crucial 30–something demographic, at which point the critical response grew decidedly more favorable.
- 2006, Kelley Keehn, The Woman's Guide to Money, Insomniac Press, →ISBN, page 44, As a member of the Generation X demographic, I'm saddened to admit that paying with plastic (whether debit or credit card) has superseded paying with real money.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: demo
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
An individual person's characteristic, encoded for the purposes of statistical analysis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective
Meaning 5
of or relating to demography
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- demographic surveys
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noun
Meaning 6
a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc.)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: statistic
History
Etymology
From demography + -ic.
Across languages
Translations
67 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: demografies — of or pertaining to demography
- Albanian: demografik — of or pertaining to demography
- Aragonese: demografico — of or pertaining to demography
- Armenian: դեմոգրաֆիական (demografiakan) — of or pertaining to demography
- Asturian: demográficu — of or pertaining to demography
- Azerbaijani: demoqrafik — of or pertaining to demography
- Basque: demografiko — of or pertaining to demography
- Belarusian: дэмаграфічны (demahrafičny) — of or pertaining to demography
- Bulgarian: демографски (demografski) — of or pertaining to demography
- Catalan: demogràfic — of or pertaining to demography
- Czech: demografický — of or pertaining to demography
- Danish: demografisk — of or pertaining to demography
- Dutch: demografisch — of or pertaining to demography
- Esperanto: demografia — of or pertaining to demography
- Estonian: demograafiline — of or pertaining to demography
- Estonian: demograafia- — of or pertaining to demography
- Finnish: demografinen — of or pertaining to demography
- Finnish: väestötieteellinen — of or pertaining to demography
- French: démographique — of or pertaining to demography
- Galician: demográfico — of or pertaining to demography
- Georgian: დემოგრაფიული (demograpiuli) — of or pertaining to demography
- German: demographisch — of or pertaining to demography
- Greek: δημογραφικός (dimografikós) — of or pertaining to demography
- Hebrew: דֵּמוֹגְרָפִי (demografi) — of or pertaining to demography
- Hungarian: demográfiai — of or pertaining to demography
- Ido: demografia — of or pertaining to demography
- Indonesian: demografis — of or pertaining to demography
- Interlingua: demographic — of or pertaining to demography
- Italian: demografico — of or pertaining to demography
- Kazakh: демографиялық (demografiälyq) — of or pertaining to demography
- Northern Kurdish: demografîk — of or pertaining to demography
- Kyrgyz: демографиялык (demografiyalık) — of or pertaining to demography
- Latvian: demogrāfisks — of or pertaining to demography
- Lithuanian: demografinis — of or pertaining to demography
- Luxembourgish: demographesch — of or pertaining to demography
- Macedonian: демографски (demografski) — of or pertaining to demography
- Malay: demografik — of or pertaining to demography
- Maltese: demografiku — of or pertaining to demography
- Māori: hangapori — of or pertaining to demography
- Norman: demographique — of or pertaining to demography
- Norwegian Bokmål: demografisk — of or pertaining to demography
- Norwegian Nynorsk: demografisk — of or pertaining to demography
- Occitan: demografic — of or pertaining to demography
- Persian: جمعیتی (jam'iyyati) — of or pertaining to demography
- Polish: demograficzny — of or pertaining to demography
- Portuguese: demográfico — of or pertaining to demography
- Romanian: demografic — of or pertaining to demography
- Romanian: демографик (demografic) — of or pertaining to demography
- Russian: демографи́ческий (demografíčeskij) — of or pertaining to demography
- Serbo-Croatian: демографски — of or pertaining to demography
- Serbo-Croatian: demografski — of or pertaining to demography
- Sicilian: dimugràficu — of or pertaining to demography
- Slovak: demografický — of or pertaining to demography
- Slovene: demografski — of or pertaining to demography
- Spanish: demográfico — of or pertaining to demography
- Swedish: demografisk — of or pertaining to demography
- Tagalog: demograpiko — of or pertaining to demography
- Tajik: демографӣ (demografi) — of or pertaining to demography
- Turkish: demografik — of or pertaining to demography
- Turkmen: demografik — of or pertaining to demography
- Ukrainian: демографічний (demohrafičnyj) — of or pertaining to demography
- Uzbek: demografik — of or pertaining to demography
- Yiddish: דעמאָגראַפֿיש (demografish) — of or pertaining to demography
- Estonian: demograafia — a statistic grouping of people by their characteristics
- Estonian: rahvastikuteadus — a statistic grouping of people by their characteristics
- Finnish: väestötiede — a statistic grouping of people by their characteristics
- Finnish: demografia — a statistic grouping of people by their characteristics
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