polling day
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2.5
- noun
- UK
:
día de votación
- The community organized a gathering to discuss the issues just before polling day.
Examples
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Many citizens participated in the election on polling day to cast their votes.
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"To me, that’s actually a plus in districts where there are long lines to vote on polling day, because anything that speeds the process in a busy precinct improves the chance of everyone being able to cast their vote before the poll closes."
Blog text (20) -
It was the evening before polling day.
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The day after polling day, all those marginal voters with no documents are instantly forgotten about until the next campaign.
Blog text (20) -
The possibility of renewed international sanctions with a "no" vote loomed large during the three-week campaign leading up to polling day on 17 March.
Academic text (1992) -
On polling day, she declared a victory for Romney on the grounds that Obama's campaign didn't "feel" like a winner to her.
Blog text (22) -
To me, that's actually a plus in districts where there are long lines to vote on polling day, because anything that speeds the process in a busy precinct improves the chance of everyone being able to cast their vote before the poll closes.
Blog text (20) -
The multi-party elections that were held for the National Assembly and presidency two months later were judged to be free and fair by a plethora of international observers who gathered to monitor the campaign and the events on polling day.
Academic text (1994) -
They were also reminded of the latest instructions for polling day: "Vote early, go home, keep calm, rejoice peacefully," and that Pinochet had ignored the invitation to debate with a leader of the opposition in the NO's own television space.
Academic text (1992) -
This new militia—dubbed the "terror teens"—has apparently been ordered to prevent Mr. Tsvangirai's supporters from campaigning and to scare as many as possible into staying at home on polling day.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
117
2.0
The day when people vote to choose leaders
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'polling' (the act of voting or recording votes) combined with 'day' (a calendar day) yields 'the day on which voting takes place.' This head–modifier noun construction is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The phrase polling day comes from the old word poll, which meant 'head' and was used when people were counted at a vote. So polling day really meant the day people were counted, and today it means the day when people go to 'vote'.