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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



... in local papers for pupils to whom she would teach music. Receiving no replies, she attempted to get employment in a house of business; this effort resulted in her obtaining work as a canvasser, remuneration being made by results. This meant tramping the pavement in all weathers, going up and coming down countless flights of stairs, swallowing all kinds of humiliating rebuffs in the effort to sell some encyclopedia or somebody's set of novels, which no one wanted. She always met with disappointment ...
— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte
... on the coming election, and Mr. Miller gave a flourishing account of his success as a canvasser, and even went the length of doubting if any opposition would ...
— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever


Words linked to "Canvasser" :   UK, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, U.K., supplicant, United Kingdom, canvass, Great Britain, suppliant, teller, examiner, enquirer, vote counter, inspector, questioner, petitioner, inquirer, Britain, fundraiser, requester, asker, canvas, querier


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