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Definition

examine an issue, get opinions by asking specific questions; and/or ask people for political support individually

She has been canvassing the membership to see how they feel and to ask for their support.

canvassing = talking with people individually

We need to canvass a wider body of student opinion.

canvass = examine or ask questions of

At the Meetings Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches, but Napoleon was better at canvassing support for himself in between times.
George Orwell -- Animal Farm

canvassing = getting (votes)

The tense, receptive, otherworldly faces of the soldiers were as real as if the presence of death had washed the canvasses with the glaze of truth.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
This observation deserves to be canvassed.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
I canvassed when a student in this way and found the method successful.
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
The subject which had been so warmly canvassed between their parents, about a twelvemonth ago, was now brought forward again.
Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice
Therefore they worked hard, but not harder than Judge Driscoll and Tom worked against them in the closing days of the canvass.
Mark Twain -- Pudd'nhead Wilson
Sean's eyes canvassed her whole body.
Sara Shepard -- Pretty Little Liars
Because she'd do the work and not try and make them go canvassing on weekends.
John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
This subject has been very narrowly canvassed among them, and it has been debated whether a firm and entire health could be called a pleasure or not.
Thomas More -- Utopia
He is canvassed by a multitude of applicants, who seek to deceive him in a thousand different ways, but who instruct him by their deceit.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
Between ourselves, you know, Crofton (he's a decent chap, of course), but he's not worth a damn as a canvasser.
James Joyce -- Dubliners
In those days, this matter of slavery had never been canvassed as it has now; nobody dreamed of any harm in it.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
They continued canvassing every inch of the area, searching for any possible advantage they could gain over the verbeeg.
R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard
If it is to be an Illumination party, Booth will canvass the city's notable residences for signs of a celebration.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
I'm not canvassing for members.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
Do, an thou darest for thy heart: an thou dost, I'll canvass thee between a pair of sheets.
William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 2
He fondly hoped he had done with the sea for ever, and made sure he had got hold of all the bliss on earth, but it came to canvassing in the end.
Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
I wish Frederick would spread a little more canvass, and bring us home one of these young ladies to Kellynch.
Jane Austen -- Persuasion

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