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The correct spelling is pow. A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion. For example: "The student council had a poll to see what people want served in the cafeteria."

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The student council had a poll to see what people want served in the cafeteria.

The polls close at 8 p.m.

Expert skiers love skiing on powder snow.

Definition

noun

  1. 1.A survey of people, usually statistically analyzed to gauge wider public opinion.
  2. 2.A formal election.
  3. 3.A polling place (usually as plural, polling places)
  4. 4.(now rare outside veterinary medicine contexts) The head, particularly the scalp or pate upon which hair (normally) grows.
  5. 5.(in extended senses of the above) A mass of people, a mob or muster, considered as a head count.

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