straw poll

1. 1.

   an unofficial vote taken to determine opinion on some issue

   Synonymsstraw vote

   Broaderpoll

Questions about straw poll

What does straw poll mean?

straw poll means "an unofficial vote taken to determine opinion on some issue".

What is another word for straw poll?

Close synonyms include straw vote. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is straw poll a common word?

straw poll is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.