polling place
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- noun
- /ˈpoʊlɪŋ pleɪs/
- US
:
centro de votación
- Identify where your polling places are, help others to find them, and get out and vote.
If you go to your polling place, I promise you we will go to his.
- If you go to your polling place, I promise you we will go to his.
- What Texas did is they actually said curbside voting can only be used by somebody who is disabled and can't make it into a polling place.
- We threw our votes toward the polling place, too far away to reach Southern arrest had set in.
Examples
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This is actually at a polling place so the people in line are waiting to go in and vote early.
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At the polling place, they all walked right inside and the man told them what to do.
Fiction book (2001) -
Meet me at the polling place after work.
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Social media platforms were filled with accounts of voters being turned away from polling places.
Academic text (2018) -
Confirm your registration, district, and polling place on the Wake County Board of Elections website.
Blog text (7) -
Across the nation, FBI and other officials are standing by at polling places that have had previous difficulties.
Blog text (5) -
State officials said yesterday that 250 to 300 polling places remain without power ahead of Tuesday's general election.
Blog text (4) -
Also, remember when you're in a polling place, you fill out your ballot and you then deposit it directly into the ballot box.
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Every nth voter was given a brief questionnaire to complete as they left the polling place.
Academic text (2013) -
Voters gathered at the polling place early in the morning to cast their ballots.
Synonyms
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A place where people go to vote in an election
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A place where people go to vote in an election
How Enclosed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a place where people go to cast their votes' is directly and transparently composed from 'polling' (the act of recording votes) + 'place' (a location), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the MWE meaning. This noun-noun composition is common cross-linguistically (e.g. Spanish 'lugar de votación', French 'bureau de vote'), making it readily comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Polling place comes from a simple picture: polling means a vote and place means a spot or room. Imagine a room with tables and a ballot box where people go to 'cast their votes', so the phrase means 'a place where people go to vote'.