pollster
nounUS /ˈpoʊlstɚ/
Etymology From poll + -ster.
1
A professional who conducts or analyzes opinion polls.
- Trump didn't like the results of the polls, so he fired the pollsters.
- Now that the cold war has ended and political ideologies have been replaced by pollsters and spin doctors, Machiavelli's cleareyed assessments of power dynamics and pragmatic advantage are suddenly in vogue.2000 December 3, Alexander Stille, “The Original Spin Doctor”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Derived terms
- pollstress