Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who solicits votes, mercantile orders, etc.
- noun One who examines the returns of votes cast for a public officer; a scrutineer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who canvasses.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun someone who goes through a
region soliciting votes in anelection , orconducting apublic opinion poll
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who examines votes at an election
- noun a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes
- noun a person who takes or counts votes
- noun someone who conducts surveys of public opinion
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sounds like the 'phone canvasser is doing unknowns and potential squeezes and would therefore only expect a smallish proportion of new Labour iDs.
Labour Leaflet 5 and phone canvassing Norfolk Blogger 2009
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Any canvasser is free to add other Dems 'literature when they doorbell, but they'll have to find non-endorsed lit on their own.
Democratic Endorsement Causes Rift Over Campaign Rules « PubliCola 2010
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It was the kind of manner that he might have shown to a titled canvasser just before an election.
The Jervaise Comedy 1910
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In the meantime, she has slightly thrown away a chance to make a telling reference, not this time to Groundhog Day, but to that other great little driver and political canvasser Travis Bickle.
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And since I'm considered a "veteran" canvasser by this point — I've been with the office almost a year — and since I had a good night and met my fundraising quota for the week by Wednesday, no less, I figure, why not go ahead and tell Trent.
Takin' a Break Christopher Snyder 2011
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One of Salmond's favourite anecdotes is how his dad switched to SNP, appalled by the rudeness of a Labour canvasser who called them Scottish Nose Pickers.
Alex Salmond: Scotland's new superhero | Observer profile 2011
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And to make that canvassing easier, the committee provides a multimedia tool for the canvasser that allows them to answer voter questions with video and detailed bullet points should the sell be needed.
A Virtual Arms Race: How Online Campaign Expenses Have Skyrocketed In 2010 The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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And to make that canvassing easier, the committee provides a multimedia tool for the canvasser that allows them to answer voter questions with video and detailed bullet points should the sell be needed.
A Virtual Arms Race: How Online Campaign Expenses Have Skyrocketed In 2010 The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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My mother, as well as an ogress, was a Nevada book-canvasser.
CHAPTER III 2010
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As point of comparison [this may be embarrassing to someone, but I'm sorry: the story is too funny], a certain fellow canvasser while I in the office, Brad W., once found himself at the door with Courtney Taylor-Taylor of the Dandy Warhols [whom Brad instantly recognized], who came to the door with an irritated: "Uh . . . you interrupted my nap!"
Here's a five (5) question "POP QUIZ" about ME! Christopher Snyder 2011
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