Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to demography.
- n. A portion of a population, especially considered as consumers.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to demography.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to demography.
- n. : A demographic criterion: a characteristic used to classify people for statistical purposes, such as age, race, or gender.
- n. A demographic group: a collection of people sharing a value for a certain demographic criterion.
- n. : An individual person's characteristic, encoded for the purposes of statistical analysis.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. of or pertaining to demography.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to demography
- n. a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc.)
Etymologies
- From demography + -ic. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Their "main demographic is family oriented companies, being that we are a real family.”
The Huffington Post: Phil Bronstein: 'Billboard Family' Puts Itself -- Kids and All -- On Sale
“What does it tell you when her main demographic is uneducated people?”
“Looks like a certain demographic is going to be looking to "get ours" if Obama's elected.”
“Given that hotornots main demographic is 18-24 they are competing with okcupid which has the same demographic.”
“Asaf, the term demographic “problem” is not racist.”
“Has it surprised you that comics have grown up so much that now the demographic is a little older?”
“The scientists talk about what they call a demographic transition that goes from high birth rates and high death rates to low birth rates and low death rates.”
“Basically, we copied Rikki Lake in the beginning, because everyone was trying to be like Oprah and go after middle-aged housewives -- what they called the demographic at the time.”
“Your suggestion that I not view the film as though it were geared towards the well-off, liberal demographic is a little misguided, however, as I didn't initially assume that at all.”
“X percent of N stories by folks not in the WASP demographic is not the issue.”
TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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-graphic
of a subject or study
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National Library Agenda Summit
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As to feature the creature "mog".
cosmogony, transmogrify, glom, golem, mog, mogul, moggy, smog, demogenic, cormogeny, seismograph, primogenitor and 359 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
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decimate, decrepitude, decry, default, defection, defer, deference, defray, deft, deign, delineate, deluge and 13 more...
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