0 past simple and past participle of poll --
1 When a person or a political party polls a particular number of votes in an election, they receive that number: --
2 to ask a person for their opinion as part of a general study of what people think about a subject: --
Half the people polled said they would pay more for environmentally friendly food.
A third of the 2,700 women polled said that they had no faith in perestroika because they had no trust in its leaders.
I had a hastily collected band of amateur helpers, and we polled about 1,700 men in eleven hours.
They would not have polled 7,000 votes, but would have forfeited their deposit, if they had done so.
The amount proposed is £50, which will be forfeited if a candidate fails to obtain one-sixth of the total number of votes polled.
In addition, consumers were polled to determine their attitudes with respect to how food animals are raised and treated.
Change in personal economic situation during past 3 months.* expected pocketbook, polled.
Ratepayer-qualified voters had polled 1,700 to 1,416 in favour of amalgamation negotiations.
They polled on the issue in 1922, 1930, and 1932.
