canvass

canvass
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Australian ballot, Hare system, address, addresses, agitate, air, all-out campaign, analyze, angle for, argue, assemblage, assembly, autopsy, aye, ballot, bid for, call-up, campaign, campaign button, campaign commitments, campaign contribution, campaign fund, canvassing, case, cast a ballot, casting vote, census, check, check out, check over, check up, check up on, collection, colligation, collocation, combination, comment upon, comparison, con, concourse, concurrence, conduct a poll, confluence, conflux, congregation, consider, consumer research, consumer-preference survey, controvert, convergence, corralling, counting heads, court, courting, cumulative voting, data-gathering, deal with, debate, deciding vote, deliberate, deliberate upon, discept, discourse about, discuss, dispute, divide, division, drum, electioneer, enfranchisement, examination, examine, exchange views, fagot vote, fish for, franchise, gathering, give an examination, go into, go over, grass-roots campaign, graveyard vote, hand vote, handle, hard-hitting campaign, hurrah campaign, ingathering, inquiry, inspect, interview, inventory, investigate, investigation, junction, juxtaposition, knock around, list system, look at, look for, look over, make a survey, media campaign, mobilization, monitor, moot, muster, nay, no, nontransferable vote, observe, opinion poll, overhaul, overlook, pass over, pass under review, peer at, peruse, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plump, plumper, plural vote, poll, polling, pop the question, pore over, postmortem, preferential voting, proportional representation, proxy, public-opinion poll, question, questionary, questionnaire, rap, reason, reason about, reason the point, record vote, referendum, representation, review, right to vote, ring doorbells, rising vote, rodeo, roundup, run over, sample, say, scan, scrutinize, secret ballot, seek, set an examination, show of hands, sift, single vote, size, size up, snap vote, solicit, solicit votes, solicitation, straw vote, study, stump, stump excursion, stump the country, stumping tour, sue, sue for, suffrage, suit, survey, take stock of, take the measure, take the stump, take up, talk, talk about, talk of, talk over, tally, thrash out, thresh out, transferable vote, treat, ventilate, vet, viva voce, voice, voice vote, vote, voting, voting right, whistle-stop, whistle-stop campaign, woo, wooing, write-in, write-in vote, yea, yeas and nays, yes

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  • Canvass — Can vass, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {canvassed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Canvassing}.] [OF. Canabasser to examine curiously, to search or sift out; properly, to sift through canvas. See {Canvas}, n.] 1. To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • canvass — can·vass also can·vas / kan vəs/ vb vassed also vased, vass·ing, also, vas·ing vt 1 a: to examine in detail; specif: to examine (votes) officially for authenticity b: to make the subject of discussion or debate …   Law dictionary

  • Canvass — Can vass, n. 1. Close inspection; careful review for verification; as, a canvass of votes. Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. Examination in the way of discussion or debate. [1913 Webster] 3. Search; exploration; solicitation; systematic effort to obtain… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Canvass — Can vass, v. i. To search thoroughly; to engage in solicitation by traversing a district; as, to canvass for subscriptions or for votes; to canvass for a book, a publisher, or in behalf of a charity; commonly followed by for. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • canvass — can‧vass [ˈkænvəs] verb [transitive] MARKETING 1. to ask people about something in order to get their opinion or to get information: • People were canvassed for their opinions on the scheme. canvasser noun [countable] : • You may get a brief… …   Financial and business terms

  • canvass — c.1500, from CANVAS (Cf. canvas) and probably meaning, originally, to toss in a canvas sheet, hence to shake out, examine carefully (1520s); to solicit votes (1550s); though to sift through canvas also has been proposed as the basic metaphor. The …   Etymology dictionary

  • canvass — [v] poll; discuss issues agitate, analyze, apply, argue, campaign, check, check over, consult, debate, dispute, electioneer, examine, inspect, investigate, review, run, scan, scrutinize, sift, solicit, study, survey, ventilate; concepts… …   New thesaurus

  • canvass — ► VERB 1) visit (someone) in order to seek their vote in an election. 2) question (someone) to find out their opinion. 3) Brit. propose (an idea or plan) for discussion. ► NOUN ▪ an act of canvassing. DERIVATIVES canvasser noun …   English terms dictionary

  • canvass — [kan′vəs] vt. [< CANVAS < ? use of canvas for sifting] 1. to examine or discuss in detail; look over carefully 2. to go through (places) or among (people) asking for (votes, opinions, orders, etc.) vi. to try to get votes, orders, etc.;… …   English World dictionary

  • canvass — I UK [ˈkænvəs] / US verb Word forms canvass : present tense I/you/we/they canvass he/she/it canvasses present participle canvassing past tense canvassed past participle canvassed 1) a) [intransitive/transitive] to ask many people in an area for… …   English dictionary

  • canvass — can|vass [ˈkænvəs] v [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: canvass to throw up in the air from a canvas sheet as a game or punishment (16 17 centuries), from canvas] 1.) [I and T] to try to persuade people to support a political party, politician, plan etc… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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