DCHP-2

enumerator DCHP-2 (October 2016)

• 1 n. — Politics, Administration

  someone who prepares the list of those eligible to vote in an election.

  Type: 3. Semantic Change — In Canada, the general meaning of 'to produce a list' has been narrowed to refer to the production of electoral rolls. In Canada, as in other countries, the word and its derivatives are also used for censuses. The noun seems to be the oldest variant in election contexts (see the 1900 quotation).
  See also COD-2, s.v. "enumerator", which is marked "Cdn", Gage-1, s.v. "enumerator" (1).

• 2 v. — derived form enumerate, Politics, Administration

  to prepare the list of eligible voters in an election.

  Type: 3. Semantic Change — The verb seems to be a derivation from the noun, see meaning 1. Gage-3 includes "enumerate" (3), which is marked "Cdn.", and ITP Nelson marks "enumerate" (3) as "Chiefly Canadian".

• 3 n. — derived form enumeration, Politics, Administration

  the process of preparing the list of voters. See meaning 1.

  Type: 3. Semantic Change — See meaning 1.