(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ 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 ~ on the president, and clearly his popularity has declined...
N-COUNT
see also opinion ~ , straw ~
2.
If you are ~ed on something, you are asked what you think about it as part of a survey.
More than 18,000 people were ~ed...
Audiences were going to be ~ed on which of three pieces of contemporary music they liked best...
More than 70 per cent of those ~ed 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 ~s 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 ~s...
Voters are due to go to the ~s on Sunday to elect a new president...
N-PLURAL: the N
4.
If a political party or a candidate ~s 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 ~ed three percent...
VERB: V n
5.
see also ~ing , deed ~