What is another word for polls?

Pronunciation: [pˈə͡ʊlz] (IPA)

The word "polls" is often used to refer to surveys or opinions gathered from a set of people on a particular topic. However, there are different ways to express this term depending on the context. Some synonyms for the word polls include surveys, questionnaires, canvassing, voting, balloting, and sampling. The use of these synonyms adds variety to the language and can make communication more precise and targeted. Knowing different synonyms for the word polls can also help writers avoid redundancy and create more engaging and diverse content.

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Usage examples for Polls

The tendency was encouraged by the elections for the renewal of the Chamber of Deputies in May, 1906. To the religious disturbances and the efforts of the Conservatives to prove themselves persecuted, the country answered at the polls by an increased anti-Clerical majority.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
The strength of the party in Parliament has never corresponded with its strength at the polls.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Though he had served as a Minister of State, he threw up his political career rather than accept a constitution as a mere royal favour; he refused to work under it or recognise it by so much as a vote at the polls.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae

Famous quotes with Polls

  • The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about their health care, about their ability to educate their kids, stay in their homes and own their homes, send their kids to college, the basic pillars of a middle-class life, if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country, these things will take care of themselves.
    David Axelrod
  • I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments.
    Bruce Babbitt
  • And I think the rolling polls put more pressure on them to sustain their beliefs and to improve their delivery of the policy and their delivery of the ideas so that they can garner support for whatever principle they're articulating.
    Jim Bolger
  • I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.
    Jim Bolger
  • I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
    Erma Bombeck

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