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Canvasser

noun
1.
A petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes.  Synonym: solicitor.
2.
Someone who examines votes at an election.  Synonym: scrutineer.
3.
Someone who conducts surveys of public opinion.  Synonyms: headcounter, poll taker, pollster.  "A headcounter counts heads"
4.
A person who takes or counts votes.






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"Canvasser" Quotes from Famous Books



... "plump" for Mr. Gladstone. The venerable Dr. Routh, then nearly ninety-two years old, came forth from his retirement at Magdalen College to vote for him. Mrs. Gladstone, according to Mr. Hope-Scott, was an indefatigable canvasser for her husband. At the close of the poll the vote stood: Inglis, 1700; Gladstone, 997; Round, 824. Of course Sir Robert Inglis, with his "prehistoric Toryism," stood at the head. To the supporters of Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Round must be added 154 who were paired. Mr. Gladstone ...
— The Grand Old Man • Richard B. Cook

... sparkled through the chorus of laughter, but I remembered the "awful creature," a genial and wise old man of affairs, whose daughter's portrait George painted. Miss Elizabeth had missed his point: the canvasser's phrase had been intended with humour, and even had it lacked that, it was not without a pretty quaintness. So I thought, being "left to my own reflections," which may have partaken of my own special kind ...
— The Guest of Quesnay • Booth Tarkington

... sharpest of tongues; the most housewifely and motherly of attitudes; the flamingest of bonnets. It is she who suggests Saint-Simonianism (as a resource, not as a creed), and actually herself becomes a priestess of the first class—till the funds give out. She, being an untiring and unabashed canvasser, gets Jerome his various places; she reconciles his nightcap-making uncle to him; she, when the pair go to the Palace and he is basely occupied with supper, carries him off in dudgeon because none of the princes (and in fact nobody at all) has asked her to dance. And when ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury



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