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The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
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The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!
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(by extension) The people with a given characteristic.
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India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.
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A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
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The town’s population is only 243.
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A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
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A seasonal migration annually changes the populations in two or more biotopes drastically, many twice in opposite senses.
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A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
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The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
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John clicked the Search button and waited for the population of the list to complete.