n.
1.the people who inhabit a territory or state
2.a group of organisms of the same species populating a given area
3.(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
4.the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.)
5.the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
Idiom of the Day
buy out (someone or something) or buy (someone or something) out
to purchase a business or a company, to buy all of someone's shares in a company
The large company wants to buy out the small company. The company plans to buy out the president.