poll : Idioms & Phrases

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Challenge to the polls

  • an exception taken to any one or more of the individual jurors returned.
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deed poll

  • noun a deed made and executed by only one party
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Deed" poll`
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  1. (Law) A deed of one part, or executed by only one party, and distinguished from an indenture by having the edge of the parchment or paper cut even, or polled as it was anciently termed, instead of being indented. Burrill.
Webster 1913

exit poll

  • noun a poll of voters as they leave the voting place; usually taken by news media in order to predict the outcome of an election
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opinion poll

  • noun an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people
    canvass; poll; opinion poll.
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Poll book

  • a register of persons entitled to vote at an election.
Webster 1913

Poll evil

  • (Far.), an inflammatory swelling or abscess on a horse's head, confined beneath the great ligament of the neck.
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poll parrot

  • noun a tame parrot
    poll.
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Poll pick

  • (Mining), a pole having a heavy spike on the end, forming a kind of crowbar.
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poll taker

  • noun someone who conducts surveys of public opinion
    headcounter; canvasser; pollster.
    • a pollster conducts public opinion polls
    • a headcounter counts heads
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Poll tax

  • noun a tax of a fixed amount per person and payable as a requirement for the right to vote
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  • a tax levied by the head, or poll; a capitation tax.
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polling booth

  • noun a temporary booth in a polling place which people enter to cast their votes
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polling day

  • noun the day appointed for an election; in the United States it is the 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday in November
    election day.
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polling place

  • noun a place where voters go to cast their votes in an election
    polling place.
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polling station

  • noun a place where voters go to cast their votes in an election
    polling place.
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public opinion poll

  • noun an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people
    canvass; poll; opinion poll.
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red poll

  • noun hornless short-haired breed of beef and dairy cattle
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straw poll

  • noun an unofficial vote taken to determine opinion on some issue
    straw vote.
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To challenge to the array, favor, polls

  • . See under Challenge, n.
Webster 1913

To poll a jury

  • to call upon each member of the jury to answer individually as to his concurrence in a verdict which has been rendered.
Webster 1913