pollster

English

Etymology

From poll +‎ -ster.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

pollster (plural pollsters)

1. A professional who conducts or analyzes opinion polls.

   Trump didn't like the results of the polls, so he fired the pollsters.

   • 2000 December 3, Alexander Stille, “The Original Spin Doctor”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Now that the cold war has ended and political ideologies have been replaced by pollsters and spin doctors, Machiavelli's cleareyed assessments of power dynamics and pragmatic advantage are suddenly in vogue.

Derived terms

• pollstress

Translations

person who conducts polls

• Bulgarian: анкетьор m (anketjor)
• Catalan: enquestador m
• Finnish: mielipidetutkija
• French: sondeur (fr) m, enquêteur (fr) m, enquêtrice (fr) f
• Galician: enquisador (gl)
• German: Meinungsforscher (de) m
• Greek: δημοσκόπος (el) m (dimoskópos)
• Hungarian: (analyzing polls) közvélemény-kutató (hu), (conducting polls) kérdezőbiztos
• Polish: ankieter (pl) m, ankieterka (pl) f
• Romanian: anchetator (ro) m, sondor (ro) m
• Russian: опро́счик (ru) m (oprósčik), опро́счица f (oprósčica), анкетёр (ru) m (anketjór)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: ankètār (sh) m

• Spanish: encuestador
• Turkish: anketçi (tr), anketör (tr)

References

• Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Winter, 1950-1951), pp. 617-638
• American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 40, No. 8, 1183-1189 (1997)

Anagrams

• Portells, roll step