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poll

 
 
/pəʊl/ noun [C] (also opinion poll)

Definition

when people are asked questions to discover what they think about a subject: A recent poll indicated that 77 percent of Americans supported the president.
(Definition of poll noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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