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.
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of public opinion poll): exit poll (a poll of voters as they leave the voting place; usually taken by news media in order to predict the outcome of an election). straw poll; straw vote (an unofficial vote taken to determine opinion on some issue).