noun
canvass
a systematic effort to gather votes, opinions, or support from a group of people
In a sentence
Six example sentences with canvass, each labelled with its topic.
Volunteers ran a door-to-door canvass of the district and found the tax question mattered far more than the bridge.
Politics
Before writing a line of code, the founders did a canvass of two hundred dentists to learn what their scheduling software lacked.
Startups
The 1880 canvass of the ward went house to house with a ledger, marking each voter as sure, doubtful, or opposed.
History
The chain ran a canvass of shoppers at all forty stores before deciding whether to drop the loyalty card.
Business
A canvass of six hundred students found that most overestimated how many hours their classmates studied each week.
Psychology
The central bank's quarterly canvass of small businesses asks each owner whether they plan to hire or cut staff.
Economics
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