0 to try to get political support or votes, especially by visiting all the houses in an area: --
1 to try to discover information or opinions by asking people: --
2 to suggest an idea or plan to be considered: --
3 the act of trying to discover information or opinions by asking people: --
4 the activity of trying to get political support or votes, especially by visiting all the houses in an area: --
5 to go to each house in an area to find out how many people live there or what their opinions are, or to get support: --
[ T ] Candidates canvassed the city’s neighborhoods for votes.
Raters' views regarding the effectiveness of the training were also canvassed.
There is a lot of material to be canvassed in the base.
Nonetheless, his canvassing provides only a dozen memoranda, generally relaying rumours and describing precautions.
Similarly, a minority of those who remembered being phoned by a party also recalled being canvassed in person.
Respondents may recall being canvassed by the party they supported, but not by the other parties.
In addition, canvassing goes on between election campaigns as well as during them.
A number of reasons will be canvassed to explain this.
Australian policy stakeholders were canvassed to assess their perspectives on the challenges and the nature of disinvestment.
