polling booth
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- noun
- /ˈpoʊlɪŋ buːθ/
- UK
:
cabina de votación
- The polling booth was set up in the community center, allowing voters to participate in the election.
- go to the polling booth
- polling booth curtains
- get into the polling booth
Armed mobsters stood at the polling booths to check the ballots before they were submitted, turning away or slugging anyone who refused to change their vote.
- Armed mobsters stood at the polling booths to check the ballots before they were submitted, turning away or slugging anyone who refused to change their vote.
Examples
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We got a polling booth right here, right around the corner.
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Ballots are secret, so nobody knows what you actually do in a polling booth.
Blog text (1) -
I enjoy the act of going into a polling booth and performing my civic duty and hearing the machine count my ballot.
Blog text (18) -
There is no time limit as to how long you may spend in the polling booth, so you can take your time when reading the ballot.
Blog text (7) -
A voter holds a crying baby as she stands in a queue to cast her ballot outside a polling booth at Lalgarh village.
Blog text (6) -
On election day, I went to the polling booth to cast my vote privately.
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After waiting in line for an hour, she finally entered the polling booth to mark her ballot.
Synonyms
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1.4
A small enclosed space where people sell things, give information, or vote
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A small private place where people vote
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'polling' (the act of recording votes) combined with 'booth' (an enclosed stall) clearly denotes an enclosed stall used for voting. This noun-noun construction is a common, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun polling booth comes from a simple image: people go into a small booth to poll, that is, 'to vote', away from others. So, polling booth means 'a small, private place where you mark your vote'.