polling( station), mass market

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“Microsoft’s pursuit of Yahoo and its antitrust troubles have the same root,” said Timothy F. Bresnahan, an economist at Stanford University and a former Justice Department antitrust official. “The future of mass-market computing is not the personal computer.”


mass market noun [C usually singular]
A product that is designed for the mass market is intended to be bought by as many people as possible, not just by people with a lot of money or a special interest:
Advances in microchip technology have made these cameras smaller and cheaper and affordable to the mass market.

poll (ELECTION) Show phonetics
verb [T]
When a person or a political party polls a particular number of votes in an election, they receive that number:
With nearly all the votes counted, Mr Soto had polled 67% of the vote.

the polls plural noun
the places where people vote in a political election:
The TV stations agreed not to announce the projected winner until after the polls closed.

polling station noun [C] (US ALSO polling place)
a place where people go to vote in an election