canvass
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈkæn.vəs/
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sondeo
- After the election, the candidates held a canvass to check voter sentiments across the community.
Examples
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Acting on Cleaver's information, we made a canvass of all metropolitan clinics and hospitals.
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Like some sort of door-to-door canvass?
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Got several new volunteers and have added a canvass for tomorrow.
Blog text (3) -
Whatever each county posts is the unofficial count until the official canvass is done.
Blog text (28) -
Authorities are asking for public cooperation... in the departmental-wide canvass.
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On emancipation, Lincoln had made a canvass of his supporters before deciding on the appropriate timing.
Academic text (2001) -
Don't come back to the table until you've made a thorough canvass of the house.
Fiction book (2001) -
I'm with a very tiresome lot of people at the moment, on a canvass in the wilds of Essex.
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The projections are that in January's canvass we will probably see about a 15% Democratic crossover.
Blog text (32) -
But after Friday's canvass, Cook is now ahead of White by 32 votes (43,743 to 43,711).
Blog text (2)
Synonyms
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1.6
A survey that asks people their opinion
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2.6
Collecting votes or opinions from people, for example during an election
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2.5
A survey that asks a group of people what they think about a topic
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4.4
A quick not official vote that shows what people think
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3.1
A survey that asks a group of people who represent the public about their views on an issue
How Extensive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Canvass probably comes from the old cloth canvas, because people once shook or tested things inside a cloth to see what they had. So a canvass is like a careful check or survey to 'find' what people think.