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单词 poll bill
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poll billn.

Brit. /ˈpəʊl ˌbɪl/, U.S. /ˈpoʊl ˌbɪl/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: poll n.1, bill n.3
Etymology: < poll n.1 + bill n.3, probably after poll money n. Compare later poll tax n.
Politics (now historical).
A parliamentary bill for levying a poll tax.In quot. 1861: a bill regarding elections.
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1641 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 304 Sir Simon d'Ewes his Speech concerning the Assessing of the Peers in the Poll-Bill.
1666 A. Marvell Let. 6 Nov. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 43 Forain excise, home excise, a Poll Bill,..haue been all more or lesse disputed.
1702 Proc. House Lords in Relation to Bill Publick Accts. 2 This Act was continu'd by the last clause in the Poll-Bill.
1757 D. Hume Hist. Great Brit. II. ii. i. 134 All the other sums, which, by a poll-bill and new assessments, they levied for that use.
1861 W. E. Gladstone Diary 12 July (1978) VI. 46 Spoke on Danish Claims—and on Univ. Poll Bill. A hard enough day.
1906 Eng. Hist. Rev. 21 274 The poll bill by which part of the sum was to be raised.
1967 Hist. Jrnl. 6 161 Their sympathizers achieve prominence only once, in a debate on the poll bill on 10 July.
1996 S. Pincus Protestantism & Patriotism iv. xxiii. 376 In the event the Poll bill was belatedly passed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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