sinsus noun English. A counting of a population, usu. by the government, census. verb English. Takes the census of a population. Example sentence: Subanen. Laung nu kaunutan nu nga sundalu, sinsusen daw gela' sug launan getaw dig baranggay, pu' bilangen nilan sa' santa' tanan. English. The leader of the soldiers says a census is to be taken of all the people in the barangay, so that they can count how many people there are.