The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word CENSUS
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More clues leading to the result CENSUS
- Become aware of us, say, in survey
- General agreement has Office for National Statistics involved in this event
- Count on son abandoning agreement
- Count bridge team in church with us
- Population count in North and South America by church
- Count coppers guarding first of electricity poles
- Count caught us hiding three bridge players
- Official list of people in Central and South America
- Saracen suspected accommodating count
- At first chaos follows, with European out for the count
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The straight part
We know that "official list of people" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case official list of people = census.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does CENSUS mean?
CENSUS noun- An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
- Count, tally.
- To conduct a census on.
- To collect a census.