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Definition of Polling place
1. Noun. A place where voters go to cast their votes in an election.
Terms within: Polling Booth
Generic synonyms: Place, Spot, Topographic Point
Definition of Polling place
1. Noun. (politics government) A place where voters cast their ballots in elections. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polling Place
Literary usage of Polling place
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1870)
"Soldiers, citizens of the State, and duly-registered voters, will be permitted
to vote, remaining at the polling-place only so long as may be necessary for ..."
2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1906)
"It shall be in a public, orderly, and convenient portion of the precinct; but,
if no nieh polling place can be had within the precinct, they may designate a ..."
3. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1832)
"Provided always, and be it enacted, That for the Purpose of assigning such
Districts to every polling place as aforesaid, every Liberty, Franchise, ..."
4. The Jurist by Great Britain Courts (1863)
"... or a polling-place, or shall be interrupted or obstructed by any riot or open
violence taking place elsewhere by the violent or forcible prevention, ..."
5. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... in the back room of a saloon in Baltimore which was being used as a polling
place. It has been suggested that he was drugged by an electioneering gang ..."
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