Polling

Definition

poll /pǝƱl/ n ၁။ (က) [C] (also the polls [pl]) ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ မဲဆႏၵေပးမႈ။ မဲေရတြက္ျခင္း။ be successful at the polls ❍ The result of the poll has now been declared. ❍ The country is going to the polls (ie voting in a political election) today. (ခ) [sing] မဲအေရအတြက္။ head the poll (ie have he largest number of votes). ၂။ [C] လူထု သေဘာထား သိရိွႏိုင္ရန္ ကိုယ္စားျပဳႏိုင္သူအခ်ဳိ႕ကို ေရြး၍ ဆႏၵ ေမးျမန္းရယူျခင္း။ လူထုသေဘာထားစစ္တမ္း နမူနာေကာက္ယူ ျခင္း။ a public opinion poll ❍ We're conducting a poll among students. See also DEED POLL, GALLUP POLL, EXIT POLL, STRAW POLL v ၁။ (ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္) မဲဆႏၵရရိွသည္။ Mr Hill polled over 3000 votes. ၂။ လူထုသေဘာထား စစ္တမ္းေကာက္ယူသည္။ Of those polled, seven out of ten said they preferred brown bread. ❏ polling n [U] (က) မဲေပးျခင္း။ heavy polling (ie in large numbers). (ခ) လူထုသေဘာထား ေမးျမန္းခံယူမႈ။ ❏ polling-booth n မဲ႐ံုခန္း။ မဲေပးခန္း။ ❏ polling-day n [U, C] (ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္) မဲဆႏၵ ေပးရေသာ ေန႔။ a week before polling-day. ❏ polling-station n မဲ႐ံု။ ❏ poll tax n လူခြန္။

Examples

1. They’re worried about the government’s present low standing in the polls.
2. A recent poll indicated that most people opposed the changes.
3. [carry out/conduct a poll] : According to a poll conducted last week
4. 75% of the public support the Prime Minister.
5. Labour were the big winners in yesterday’s poll.
6. Wilson came away with 64% of the poll.
7. The polls close at ten o’clock.