poll, übersetzung im Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

poll (polls plural & 3rd person present) (polling present participle) (polled past tense & past participle )

1 n-count A poll is a survey in which people are asked their opinions about something, usually in order to find out how popular something is or what people intend to do in the future.
Polls show that the European treaty has gained support in Denmark...

2 verb If you are polled on something, you are asked what you think about it as part of a survey.
More than 18,000 people were polled... be V-ed

3 n-plural The polls means an election for a country's government, or the place where people go to vote in an election.
In 1945, Winston Churchill was defeated at the polls...

4 verb If a political party or a candidate polls a particular number or percentage of votes, they get that number or percentage of votes in an election.
It was a disappointing result for the Greens who polled three percent... V n

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