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canvasser
[ kan-vuhs-er ]
noun
- a person who solicits votes, subscriptions, donations, opinions, or the like, especially by phone or door-to-door:
Besides raising funds, canvassers also leave important information for residents regarding heart health.
Word History and Origins
Origin of canvasser1
Example Sentences
A canvasser will knock on their door and ask voters to sign the card.
He noted that the turnout promoting effect of a canvasser knocking on a door decays within ten days to be almost minimal.
I hit the streets of San Francisco with canvasser Cynthia Ford, who began collecting signatures for the group in March.
I needn't have taken the job of canvasser in the first place.
Then he saw that she was very young and modest, with none of the assurance of a canvasser, so he gave her a chance to speak.
He represents that vast army of electors whom neither canvasser nor caucus has ever yet cajoled or bullied into a polling-booth.
The relation of this subject to the book canvasser is extremely suggestive.
A fourth is a successful life-insurance canvasser, and has lately insured the lives of the other three.
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