polling booth

Save This Word!

See synonyms for polling booth on Thesaurus.com

noun

a booth in which voters cast their votes.

QUIZ

QUIZ YOURSELF ON “ITS” VS. “IT’S”!

Apostrophes can be tricky; prove you know the difference between "it’s" and "its" in this crafty quiz!

Question 1 of 8

On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

it's

its

TAKE THE QUIZ TO FIND OUT

Origin of polling booth

First recorded in 1850–55

Words nearby polling booth

pollicitation, pollicization, pollinate, pollination, polling, polling booth, polling place, polling station, pollini-, polliniferous, pollinium

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2022

How to use polling booth in a sentence

As we enter a new year, pushback against delivery apps and predatory practices is growing — in courtrooms, polling booths, and within restaurants and their customer base.
Who’s Paying for the Great Delivery Wars?|Jaya Saxena|January 21, 2021|Eater
They are, to say the least, preparing for civil war (the polling stations are stormed by armed gangs).
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim President|Pierre Assouline|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Mr. Bachner found it by wandering through the market and identified a craftsmen here who works in a tiny booth.
The Photographer Who Gave Up Manhattan for Marrakech|Liza Foreman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Visitors today can keep watch over the scene in the booth at the end of the bar that Capone and his cronies once occupied.
The Bars That Made America Great|Nina Strochlic|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST

How the polling firms and the media adjust to new realities also seems to be a rather long arc.
The Gun Battle Since Newtown|Cliff Schecter|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Where necessary, the commission will provide pens in polling booths that will be routinely sanitized.
Liberian Senatorial Elections Defy Ebola|Wade Williams|December 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Barton Booth died; a celebrated tragedian in the reign of queen Anne, author of some songs and minor pieces.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
It was in conjunction with Mr. Booth that my father constructed the 'Rocket' engine.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick
The custodian's booth was closed, but there was a small gate in the great entrance and we walked in.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car|Thomas D. Murphy
And Lamb said a four-letter word after he had hung up and laughed out loud in the phone booth.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
See Fig. 85, a copy of a broken sepulchral slab, in which the prophets booth is reduced to a single branch of a gourd.
The Catacombs of Rome|William Henry Withrow

British Dictionary definitions for polling booth

polling booth

noun

a semienclosed space in which a voter stands to mark a ballot paper during an election

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

polling booth

Origin of polling booth

Words nearby polling booth

Words related to polling booth

How to use polling booth in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for polling booth