the setting right of what is wrong: redress of abuses. 2. relief from wrong or injury. 3. compensation or satisfaction for a wrong or injury. verb (used with object)
â¢ PUBLIC OPINION POLL (noun). The noun PUBLIC OPINION POLL has 1 sense: 1. an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people. Familiarity information: PUBLIC OPINION POLL used as a noun is very rare.
Key defined public opinion in 1961 as âopinions held by private persons which governments find it prudent to heed.â Subsequent advances in statistical and demographic analysis led by the 1990s to an understanding of public opinion as the collective view of a defined population, such as a particular demographic or ethnic group.