polling

3 definitions • 2 examples

present participle of

When a person or a political party polls a particular number of votes in an election, they receive that number:

With nearly all the votes counted, Mr Soto had polled 67 percent of the vote.

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.