polling booth

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noun
  1. a booth in which voters cast their votes.

Origin of polling booth

1
First recorded in 1850–55

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How to use polling booth in a sentence

  • The red herring of annexation was drawn across the trail, and many a farmer followed it to the polling booth.

    The Canadian Dominion | Oscar D. Skelton
  • He represents that vast army of electors whom neither canvasser nor caucus has ever yet cajoled or bullied into a polling-booth.

    Obiter Dicta | Augustine Birrell
  • They would drive the Presbyterians from the bench and the polling-booth as the Presbyterians had driven them.

  • Thomas Brogan dare not leave the polling-booth for his life, until Mr. Carew took him on his car.

    Ireland as It Is | Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
  • Instead of the polling-booth, where nothing counts but heads, you would set for the two parties another trysting place.

    Ireland as It Is | Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

British Dictionary definitions for polling booth

polling booth

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

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