Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - poll

(polls, polling, polled) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. 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... We are doing a weekly poll on the president, and clearly his popularity has declined... N-COUNT see also opinion poll, straw poll 2. 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... Audiences were going to be polled on which of three pieces of contemporary music they liked best... More than 70 per cent of those polled said that they approved of his record as president. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed, be V-ed on wh/n, V-ed 3. 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... Voters are due to go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president... N-PLURAL: the N 4. 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... VERB: V n 5. see also polling, deed poll POLLEN (pollens) Pollen is a fine powder produced by flowers. It fertilizes other flowers of the same species so that they produce seeds. N-MASS