pollster

English

Etymology

From poll +‎ -ster.

Noun

pollster (plural pollsters)

1. A professional who conducts or analyzes opinion polls.

   Trump didn't like the results of the polls, so he fired the pollsters.

   • 2000 December 3, Alexander Stille, “The Original Spin Doctor”, in The New York Times‎^[1], ISSN 0362-4331:

     Now that the cold war has ended and political ideologies have been replaced by pollsters and spin doctors, Machiavelli's cleareyed assessments of power dynamics and pragmatic advantage are suddenly in vogue.

Translations

person who conducts polls

• Bulgarian: анкетьор m (anketjor)
• Catalan: enquestador m
• Finnish: mielipidetutkija
• French: sondeur (fr) m, enquêteur (fr) m, enquêtrice (fr) f
• Galician: enquisador (gl)
• German: Meinungsforscher (de) m
• Greek: δημοσκόπος (el) m (dimoskópos)
• Polish: ankieter (pl) m, ankieterka (pl) f
• Romanian: anchetator (ro) m, sondor (ro) m

• Russian: опро́счик (ru) m (oprósčik), опро́счица f (oprósčica), анкетёр (ru) m (anketjór)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: ankètār (sh) m

• Spanish: encuestador

References

• Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Winter, 1950-1951), pp. 617-638
• American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 40, No. 8, 1183-1189 (1997)

Anagrams

• Portells, roll step