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Pronunciation: [kˈanvəsɪŋ] (IPA)

Canvassing, also known as soliciting or campaigning, refers to the process of actively seeking support or opinions from a group of individuals. Synonyms for canvassing include surveying, polling, gathering data, conducting research, getting feedback or opinions, and questioning. Canvassing can also be defined as campaigning to win votes and support, which can be done through door-to-door visits, phone calls, emails, leaflets, and social media. Other synonyms for canvassing that relate to political campaigns include canvassing for votes, electioneering, and political mobilization. Whatever the purpose of the canvassing is, it involves actively seeking opinions or support from a defined group of individuals.

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Usage examples for Canvassing

I am a school lady, I am a visiting lady, I am a reading lady, I am a distributing lady; I am on the local linen box committee, and many general committees; and my canvassing alone is very extensive-perhaps no one's more so.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
"Mrs. Dennison," I said, conquering the anger that burned in me like a fire, "excuse me if I seem rude, but if there is anything of excitement in my manner, it is because I am not used to canvassing the feelings of my friends, even with those nearest and dearest to me."
"Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life"
Ann S. Stephens
I fancied I did, when I heard those ladies coming upstairs each night, so charmed with all your graceful gifts, and so eloquent over all your fascinations; and now, as you stand there, word-splitting and phrase-weighing, canvassing what it might cost you to do this or where it would lead you to say that, I ask myself, Is this the boy of whom his father said, 'Above all things he shall be a gentleman'?
"That Boy Of Norcott's"
Charles James Lever

Famous quotes with Canvassing

  • Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.
    Fredrik Bajer
  • There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.
    Patricia Ireland
  • Consider, and you will find that almost all the transactions of the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing for consulship?yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.
    M Aurelius

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