The software allows users to make phone calls, register to vote, and canvass neighborhoods with a few simple instructions.
There is no purpose in asking people to walk the neighborhood to canvass for someone who would support the status quo.
At the very end of the canvass a chance remark may have decided the result.
Lincoln entered the canvass unknown outside the state of Illinois.
My sentiments are neither divine oracles nor theological opinions which it is not permitted to canvass.
Let her not look only on a gentleman to canvass his merits as a lover, and a husband.
He had the audacity to speak, think, and write, as if he were entitled to canvass affairs of State.
He undertook a canvass of the country the like of which no candidate had ever made before.
He was easily caricatured—but difficult to represent as he was, in marble or on canvass.
He joined him in his canvass, lending his own name and prestige to the Democratic meetings.
c.1500, from alternative spelling of canvas (n.) and probably meaning, originally, "to toss or sift in a canvas sheet," hence "to shake out, examine carefully" (1520s); "to solicit votes" (1550s). The spelling with a double -s- dates from 16c. Cf. Old French canabasser "to examine carefully," literally "to sift through canvas." Related: Canvassed; canvassing. As a noun related to this, attested from c.1600.