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pollster en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈpoʊlstɚ/ (General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English poll Proto-West Germanic *-astrijā Old English -estre Middle English -estere English -ster English pollster From poll + -ster.

Meanings

  1. A professional who conducts or analyzes opinion polls.
    • Now that the cold war has ended and political ideologies have been replaced by pollsters and spin doctors, Machiavelli's cleareyed assessments of power dynamics and pragmatic advantage are suddenly in vogue. 2000 December 3, Alexander Stille, “The Original Spin Doctor”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
    • Trump didn't like the results of the polls, so he fired the pollsters.

Forms

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Deriveds

pollstress

Translations (24)

pl ankieterka (person who conducts polls) · ru опро́счица (person who conducts polls) · el δημοσκόπος (person who conducts polls) · sh ankètār (person who conducts polls) · ru анкетёр (person who conducts polls) · ca enquestadora (person who conducts polls) · hu közvélemény-kutató (person who conducts polls) · fi mielipidetutkija (person who conducts polls) · ca enquestador (person who conducts polls) · de Meinungsforscher (person who conducts polls) · es encuestador (person who conducts polls) · tr anketör (person who conducts polls) · bg анкетьор (person who conducts polls) · hu kérdezőbiztos (person who conducts polls) · tr anketçi (person who conducts polls) · pl ankieter (person who conducts polls) · fr sondeur (person who conducts polls) · ro anchetator (person who conducts polls) · gl enquisador (person who conducts polls) · fr enquêtrice (person who conducts polls) · fr enquêteur (person who conducts polls) · pt pesquisador (person who conducts polls) · ro sondor (person who conducts polls) · ru опро́счик (person who conducts polls)