pollster
US/ˈpoʊlstɚ/
pollster noun: a professional who conducts or analyzes opinion polls.
Noun
pollster (plural pollsters)
- A professional who conducts or analyzes opinion polls.
- Trump didn't like the results of the polls, so he fired the pollsters.
- Now that the cold war has ended and political ideologies have been replaced by pollsters and spin doctors, Machiavelli's cleareyed assessments of power dynamics and pragmatic advantage are suddenly in vogue.2000 December 3, Alexander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
Examples of pollster in a sentence
- Pollsters need to remember the shy Tory factor.
- And herding, not to put too fine a point on it, is when pollsters cheat.
- Pollsters study these chesslike moves, to give weight to a school's football program.
Forms of pollster
| plural | pollsters |
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Origin of pollster
From poll + -ster.
Words formed from pollster
Questions about pollster
- What does pollster mean?
- Pollster means a professional who conducts or analyzes opinion polls.
- What part of speech is pollster?
- Pollster is a noun.
- How do you pronounce pollster?
- Pollster is pronounced /ˈpoʊlstɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of pollster?
- The plural of pollster is pollsters.
Words near pollster in the dictionary
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