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Definition: Pollster |
PollsterNoun1. Someone who conducts surveys of public opinion; "a pollster conducts public opinion polls"; "a headcounter counts heads". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: PollsterSynonyms: headcounter (n), poll taker (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pollster |
| English words defined with "pollster": headcounter ♦ poll taker. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Hong Kong | The Hong Kong University-based pollster, whose allegations in 2000 that the Government had pressured him to stop conducting polls on the Chief Executive's declining popularity, and led to the resignations of two senior University officials, continued his polling work unrestricted. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Pollster" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.33% of the time. "Pollster" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.33% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gallup pollster | 86 |
pollster | 78 |
harris pollster | 61 |
gallop pollster | 6 |
harris lou pollster | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pollster"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منظم الاستفتاءات, مستفتي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 民意测验者. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | متصدی اخذرای یامراجعه به اراء عمومی , ناظرانتخابات . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sondeur, enquêteur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Meinungsforscher. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | עורך משאלים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | közvélemény-kutató. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ollsterpay опрашиватель (poller), лицо (affirmant, alienee, arrester, caster of accounts, chiropodist, decision-maker, dedicatee, deputy sheriff, disorderly person, disseisee, donatory, draft dodger, earner, face, fat cat, front, kisser, licensee, misdemeanant, negotiator, obligor, person, persons, phiz, promisee, promisor, public servant, socialite, visage, warrantee, warrantor), производящее опрос общественного мнения. (various references) entrevistador (interviewer). (various references) seçim sonucunu önceden hesaplayan kimse, anketör. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pollster": pollsters. (additional references) | |
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"Pollster" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pallistar, Pallisteur, pallyster, pillister, polister, Pollesley, pollter, Polsted. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pollster" (pronounced pō"lster) |
| 6 | p ō" l s t er | upholster. |
| 5 | -ō" l s t er | bolster, holster. |
| 4 | -l s t er | Ulster. |
| 3 | -s t er | adjuster, administer, alabaster, ancestor, aster, banister, bannister, barrister, blaster, blister, blockbuster, bluster, booster, broadcaster, burgomaster, Buster, canister, cannister, caster, Castor, cloister, cluster, coaster, concertmaster, coster, Dempster, Dexter, digester, disaster, dumpster, duster, Easter, ester, faster, Feaster, fester, filibuster, fluster, forecaster, Forester, Foster, gangbuster, gangster, Gaster, grandmaster, hamster, harvester, headmaster, heister, huckster, imposter, impostor, investor, jester, juster, keister, kiester, lackluster, laster, Leister, Lister, lobster, Luster, lustre, master, minister, Minster, Mister, mobster, molester, monster, muenster, Munster, muster, nester, Nestor, newscaster, oldster, oleaster, ouster, oyster, paster, pastor, pester, pilaster, plaster, polyester, poster, postmaster, prankster, protester, quartermaster, raster, register, requester, rester, ringmaster, roadster, roaster, roister, rooster, roster, royster, schoolmaster, scoutmaster, seamster, semester, sequester, shyster, sinister, sister, spinster, sportscaster, stepsister, taskmaster, taster, teamster, tester, thruster, tipster, toaster, toastmaster, transistor, trickster, trimester, twister, waster, Webster, Wester, youngster, zoster. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-l-o-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: petrols, pollers, replots, repolls, tollers. | |
-2 letters: lopers, ostler, petrol, polers, poller, poster, presto, proles, replot, repoll, repots, respot, sloper, splore, sterol, stoper, stroll, toller, topers, trolls, tropes. | |
-3 letters: estop, loper, lopes, lores, losel, loser, orles, pelts, pesto, plots, poets, poler, poles, polls, pores, ports, poser, prest, prole, prose, prost, repos, repot, roles, rolls. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-l-o-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: pollsters, polluters, preallots. | |
+2 letters: allotropes, patrollers. | |
+3 letters: allopatries, allotropies, leptospiral, pellitories, portabellas, portabellos, portobellos, propellants, propellents. | |
+4 letters: boilerplates, comptrollers, counterspell, multiplexors, petrodollars, portcullises, prothalluses, realpolitiks, trophallaxes. | |
+5 letters: bipropellants, blepharoplast, collectorship, counterspells, electrophiles, electroplates, pyrophyllites, superloyalist. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 6C 6C 73 74 65 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01101100 01101100 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o l l s t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 006C 006C 0073 0074 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5081787885867184 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, 阿拉伯 , arabe, arabisch, ערבית, ערבי, arab, арабский, árabe, arapça, arap, araplara özgü |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | الصينية, لغة الصين, صيني, الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinois, Chinesisch, kínai, китайский, китаец, chino, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch, צרפתית, צרפתי, francia, французский, francés, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , allemand, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, német, немецкий, alemán, alman |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | اليهودية, اللغة العبرية, يهودي, عبري, العبرية, 西伯来, 希伯來語 , hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hebreo, musevi, ibranice, ibrani |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , hongrois, Ungar, "ו 'רי, magyar, венгр, венгерский, húngaro, macarca, macar |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, Russe, russisch, רוסי, orosz, русский, ruso, Rusça |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, espagnol, spanisch, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, испанский, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, turque, türkisch, טורקי, török, турецкий, turco, türkçe, türk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, א 'לית, angol, английский, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
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