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polling-station

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as polling-place

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Examples

  • Taliban violence during the first round underlined just how dangerous going to a polling-station can be.

    Vikrum Aiyer: It's a Runoff, Now What? Parsing the Impacts of the Presidential Rematch in Afghanistan 2009

  • Give up this card at your polling-station for free samples of silks in my great blouse offer.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20 Various

  • Being told by the Communists that their box at the polling-station was really the box for the poor, the Fukara, all the gypsies and so forth of

    The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917

  • I was standing in the principal polling-station at one time, when a gentleman called Hoppett, a cobbler by persuasion -- I think I have already mentioned him as the benignant individual who used to come to the door of his establishment and pursue me with curses down the street -- came out from recording his vote.

    The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton Ian Hay 1914

  • He walked straight out, put on his hat, and went to the Bleakridge polling-station and voted Labour defiantly, as though with a personal grievance against the polling-clerk.

    Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

  • Loyalty to their shibboleth was beginning to draw them, still grumbling and making use of expressive imprecations, on the way to the nearest polling-station, when one of their leaders drew Professor Roberts aside, and asked him:

    Gulmore, The Boss Frank Harris 1893

  • To Professor Roberts the remainder of the day was one whirl of restless labour; he hastened from one polling-station to another, and when the round was completed drove to the Central Rooms, where questions had to be answered, and new arrangements made without time for thought.

    Gulmore, The Boss Frank Harris 1893

  • Loyalty to their shibboleth was beginning to draw them, still grumbling and making use of expressive imprecations, on the way to the nearest polling-station, when one of their leaders drew Professor Roberts aside, and asked him:

    Elder Conklin and Other Stories Frank Harris 1893

  • To Professor Roberts the remainder of the day was one whirl of restless labour; he hastened from one polling-station to another, and when the round was completed drove to the Central Rooms, where questions had to be answered, and new arrangements made without time for thought.

    Elder Conklin and Other Stories Frank Harris 1893

  • I, as became a Democratic candidate, walked from polling-station to polling-station, while my opponent, as became

    Doctor Therne Henry Rider Haggard 1890

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