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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pollster
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
republican
▪ Linda DiVall, a veteran Republican pollster who is working on the presidential campaign of Texas Sen.
■ NOUN
opinion
▪ This last strategy for sampling is normally used by professional public opinion pollsters and by political scientists.
▪ This is an occupational hazard shared by sportswriters and opinion pollsters.
▪ He did not mention Labour and even refrained from a sneer at the opinion pollsters.
▪ According to opinion pollsters Harris it was the third most important issue on voters minds in 1987.
■ VERB
tell
▪ Not surprisingly, townies tell pollsters they wish they lived there, too.
▪ Voters tell pollsters that the electoral outcome they most favour is a coalition of Socialists and the United Left.
▪ People can only tell the pollsters what they know.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A senior adviser and pollster for Sen.
▪ Although Lukashenko is tipped to win by the pollsters, already 25 other candidates have said they will stand for the presidency.
▪ Greenberg was replaced by pollsters Mark Penn and Douglas Schoen.
▪ He complained bitterly after being surprised by Pat Buchanan in an early primary about a pollster whose predictions had been too optimistic.
▪ The pollsters might as well ask them who will win the Derby and whether the weather will be fine.
▪ This is an occupational hazard shared by sportswriters and opinion pollsters.
▪ Usually, it comes from the candidates, though, who absolutely hate it when reporters link their principles with their pollsters.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pollster

1939, from poll (n.) + -ster.

Wiktionary
pollster

n. A professional whose primary job is conducting opinion polls.

WordNet
pollster

n. someone who conducts surveys of public opinion; "a pollster conducts public opinion polls"; "a headcounter counts heads" [syn: poll taker, headcounter, canvasser]

Usage examples of "pollster".

But there were more goodies in the grab bag of data points provided by pollster Mark Penn.

The choice of a pollster may not have the same global implications as picking the Pentagon boss, but the approach to decision-making is probably similar in both cases.

Democratic Partycame to Lieberman recommended by fellow media consultant Eskew and pollster Mark Penn.

My pollster tells me that my, uh, positive job rating leaped six points.

It offended Clinger, it made him feel like the butt of a joke to have to play the role of a television pollster, but Parker was right that this was the best way to handle it.

Holt needed no pollster to tell him they were anxious for out The group had gone as far as it would go.

Stainer, the national pollster, with his legendary secret sample group perfectly representing America in miniature.

One of the most respected of all pollsters is Committee of 300 member Daniel Yankelovich, of the company, Yankelovich, Skelley and White.

Group is a spinoff of the parent company whose function it is to brainwash the American people through a network of pollsters and opinion makers and relies on Operations Research for direct links with the Tavistock Institute.

And after the opening-bell South Carolina debate in early May, Kerry dispatched two media consultants, two pollsters and a passel of press aides to spin webs for reporters.

The central beneficiaries of this closed-loop system are the political parties, the consultants, the spin doctors, the imagemakers, the pollsters and the local television stations that jack up their ad rates before an election.

Although there is no shortage of urban blight and despair in Rochester, it is regularly deemed by pollsters to be one of the safest medium-sized cities in the nation.

Eighty percent of respondents told pollsters they believed it possible that the president was a rapist.

Even in the primaries he lost -- New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania -- he did well enough to embarrass the pollsters, humiliate the pols, and crank up his staff morale another few notches.

McCarthy, just months away from a Senate censure, Americans told pollsters they approved of the job he was doing by 50 to 29 percent.