0 past simple and past participle of canvass
1 to try to get political support or votes, especially by visiting all the houses in an area:
2 to try to discover information or opinions by asking people:
3 to suggest an idea or plan to be considered:
Constituency activists mailed party literature to local voters; distributed leaflets and posters from door to door; and canvassed voters on their doorsteps.
Alternatives to the new welfare are canvassed in the final section of the paper.
In 1992, 31 per cent of voters and 10 per cent of non-voters were canvassed.
If one is more optimistic, then the two responses canvassed above will seem more persuasive.
Australian policy stakeholders were canvassed to assess their perspectives on the challenges and the nature of disinvestment.
Yarmouth indicated his irritation that people other than his chosen candidates, who were 'persons of undoubted loyalty ', were being canvassed.
Explanations of this wave of divestments have been widely canvassed but hardly tested.
However, exposure to the telephone canvass did not have as much impact on chances of being canvassed on the doorstep.
