Synonym: canvass, questionnaire, survey, vote. Similar words: pollution, poly, pole, policy, police, apology, apologize, political. Meaning: [pəʊl] n. 1. an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people 2. the top of the head 3. the part of the head between the ears 4. a tame parrot 5. the counting of votes (as in an election). v. 1. get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions 2. vote in an election at a polling station 3. get the votes of 4. convert into a pollard.
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61. Trade unions are regarding the poll as a test of the public's confidence in the government.
62. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 per cent.
63. Steve changed his name by deed poll to Elvis Presley-Smith.
64. An opinion poll published in May showed Mrs Yardley was level-pegging with Mr Simpson.
65. A straw poll of local inhabitants concluded that British tourists were the worst dressed and Italians the most stylish.
66. The poll tax was a very unpopular form of taxation.
67. The final result of the poll will be known tomorrow.
68. But, as the opinion poll shows, the party's standing with the people at large has never been so low.
69. But then, nemesis: the exit poll, the Basildon result.
70. One new poll showed him pulling ahead of Sen.
71. Their refusal to curtail spending plans and to increase the burden on poll tax payers is expected.
72. The poll also pointed to a clean sweep for the Democrats in elections for lieutenant-governor and attorney-general.
73. Even water privatisation, which every opinion poll showed to be a deeply unpopular measure, was almost six times over-subscribed.
74. After all, the Literary Digest Poll for the 1932 election came within a tiny margin of the actual result.
75. Some election supervisors at poll booths were under 18 and were unable to answer voters' queries regarding elections, he said.
76. The poll tax has been a social, political and economic disaster of historic proportions.
77. Mr Alton said that the poll tax meant many people had dodged electoral registers in a bid to avoid payment.
78. As it lives on a diet of poll findings, it can not perform better than they do.
79. The council tax will retain the most objectionable parts of the poll tax - the head count tax on the individual.
80. It was used to justify the introduction of the poll tax and to justify breaking up metropolitan counties.
81. These are also designed with an eye to reassuring those who did well out of the switch from rates to poll tax.
82. First under the poll tax and now under the council tax, central control has replaced local democracy in determining spending.
83. We will abolish the poll tax Labour will abolish the poll tax immediately.
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84. But it is hard to blame Labour's 1992 defeat on poll tax-related non-registration.
85. The poll tax will increase the numbers eligible for housing benefit.
86. I urge all Opposition Members who have not paid their poll tax to do so without delay.
87. The poll showed a much closer split on whether Jones's lawsuit should be delayed until after Clinton leaves office.
88. The community charge or poll tax is open to two major criticisms.
89. The authors give warning that the Government has drawn the wrong conclusions from its experience of the poll tax.
90. According to a recent poll, the governor has lost support among conservatives.
More similar words: pollution, poly, pole, policy, police, apology, apologize, political, politician, politically, toll, roll, doll, metropolitan, collar, enroll, follow, roll in, roll out, roll up, rolling, collect, college, collapse, follow up, as follows, following, collector, colleague, colloquial.