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poll English

Meaning poll meaning

What does poll mean?
Definitions in simple English

poll Noun

— A poll is a process of asking people for their opinions about something and counting the results. The latest Newsweek poll suggests 65% of the public is dissatisfied with the president. She was extremely concerned about recent opinion polls showing a decline in her popularity. Senator McCain continues to hold a two-point lead in the daily tracking poll. We conducted our own poll of smokers under 18 and we found roughly the same numbers. The latest poll indicates that her lead is down to 6 points. According to one poll, almost two-thirds of New York City voters opposed the plan. An Ohio poll released in February 2008 showed the economy as the most important issue. — If people go to the polls, they vote in an election. Voters go to the polls eight days from now.

poll Verb

— If you poll people, you ask them for their opinion about something and you count the results. Seventy percent of those polled said that the U.S. military was making the security situation worse in Iraq.

poll

— noun an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people — verb get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions — verb get the votes of — verb vote in an election at a polling station — verb (= pollard) convert into a pollard pollard trees — noun the part of the head between the ears — noun the counting of votes (as in an election) — noun a tame parrot — noun (= pate) the top of the head

Synonyms poll synonyms

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poll English » English

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Poll English » English

passmen parrot

Topics poll topics

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Person Body

Head

Conjugation poll conjugation

How do you conjugate poll?

poll · verb

Examples poll examples

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Simple sentences

It is a prevalent belief, according to a nationwide poll in the United States, that Muslims are linked with terrorism.
The opinion poll was based on a random sample of adults.
The result of the poll will be known soon.
The results of our opinion poll permit some interesting conclusions.
A poll shows that an overwhelming majority is in favor of the legislation.
My refusal to explain exempts me from the poll.

Movie subtitles

Perhaps they drank the champagne earlier, celebrating poll results, but had an argument.
Cut his throat? What would she have done if the poll results were bad?
It's a kind of a poll.
Disapproves of the poll tax and Bilbo.
I'm taking a poll of the guests.
A poll of opinion about it.
Our fellow guests were Lady Redpole and her daughter Maud who most suitably resembled nothing so much as a red poll cow and had little more conversational ability.
Sing or your supper, Poll.
That Gallup Poll shake you up?
The Gallup Poll of last week indicated what appears to be a very universal rejection of your entire political philosophy.
We're completing an opinion poll.
Yes, but you mustn't call him, Abraham, - until Deed Poll is executed.
WE THOUGHT ABOUT CHANGING IT BY DEED-POLL TO WATSON OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
I want to report on a private poll I'm taking.
Don't be that loud, Poll.
Leave that, Poll!
The long Poll and the little Peter!
Every straw vote every independent poll shows that I will be elected.
Is this some kind of Gallup Poll?
I didn't know they took a poll. Nobody asked me.
May I poll my men, sir?
Speaking as a public-opinion poll I've had enough of the permissive society.
Good evening, general. I want to report on a private poll I'm taking. What poll?
The latest opinion poll published today shows Labour ahead with 40 percent, the AA, second with 38 percent, and not surprisingly, Kentucky Fried Chicken running the Liberals a very close third.
Tell 'em it's a poll on America's nightlife.
Is this some kind of Gallup poll?
Tom. can you see Poll. ah, Paul there?
You should now Trisha that this is your last drink. We are becoming poll station.
She changed her name by a deed poll because I asked her to.
A poll?
Because of a public opinion poll the series is going to start with a different concept.
How many of us have lost countless productive hours...plagued by unwanted sexual thoughts and feelings? - That was a rhetorical question, Mr Harris,...not a poll.

News and current affairs

A recent BBC poll of 22 countries found that if the world could vote, Obama would win in a landslide.
One question always asked in this poll is whether voters tend to trust or mistrust different institutions, such as national parliaments, national governments, and the European Union.
A recent poll shows that Afghans overwhelmingly favor their country's new direction - backing the participation of women in public life and international intervention against al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the drug economy.
In a recent poll of British economists by the Centre for Macroeconomics, two-thirds agreed that austerity had harmed the UK economy.
An opinion poll in Israel shows that the majority of Israelis opt for democracy, but there is a downward trend there as well.
Second, as the Pew poll suggests, today's weakening of democratic culture usually takes the form of nostalgia for strong leadership - a clear incitement to launching coups.
On the contrary, electorates everywhere seem more volatile than anything else, with voters prepared to change their preferences from one poll to the next.
Nationalist sentiment is rising, and demagogic parties of the far right and left are gaining in every poll.
A recent Pew poll found that many Europeans have lost their attraction to the US and would like Europe to play a larger role in world politics.
Since 1981, no poll favorite has won the presidency.
Last summer, I took an informal poll at a meeting of Wall Street investors to find out whether they would condone the use of torture to prevent a terrorist attack.
For that reason, we should greet the poll results positively, and resolve to close the gaps that still exist between rhetoric and reality.
To judge from the Japanese press, as well as the DPJ's plunging poll ratings, disillusion has already set in.
Further evidence of American isolationism can be found in a recent opinion poll taken by the Pew Research Center and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Moreover, the latest Eurobarometer poll shows that defense is the last thing that Europeans are worried about.
A poll conducted in January projected that in a four-way race, Lewites would come in first, followed by Montealegre.
Around mid-August, as Trump's poll numbers rose even after public statements that would have brought down mere mortal candidates, it dawned on the pundits that he was no summer infatuation.
But Carson says them quietly, which may be why his favorability rating in Iowa is higher than that of his Republican competitors (pulling even with Trump in one poll).
Two days before the vote, our poll watchers and supporters were searched, arrested, and given one-day trials, with most sentenced to one or two months in jail.
We feared that the voting would take place without the presence of our poll watchers.
In Britain, one recent poll indicated that as many as two-thirds of Conservatives want Britain to leave the European Union.
But, according to a 2012 poll, more Europeans believe that violence against Jews is fueled by long-standing anti-Semitic attitudes, rather than anti-Israel sentiment.
Indeed, I believe that it is here that the seminal reason for their plunging poll ratings lies.

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