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词汇 canvasser
释义 canvasser
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈkæn.və.sər/ us /ˈkæn.və.sɚ/

canvassernoun[C] (GET SUPPORT)


a person who tries to get political support or votes, especially by visiting all the houses in an area: 游说(拉票)者
Canvassers will go door-to-door on election day.拉票员将在选举日挨家挨户进行拉票。
Canvassers approached pedestrians, asking them to sign a petition.游说者走近行人,要求他们在请愿书上签名。
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canvass
Instead of visiting ten houses, a canvasser can check the list and see that six of those had already voted.
There are groups that pay canvassers to register voters.
The weekend before the election, canvassers descend on all of the city’s neighbourhoods.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Supporters, members & defenders
advocate
allyship
anti-evolution
anti-evolutionary
anti-evolutionist
apologist
apostle
booster
card-carrying member
custodian
defender
non-member
non-membership
patron
patroness
pro-natalist
protagonist
recruit
seconder
surrogate

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Activism & pressure groups

canvassernoun[C] (ASK)


a person who tries to discover information or opinions by asking people: 调查员
Canvassers surveyed people from over 2,500 households.调查员对来自2500多个家庭的人进行了调查。
He instructs canvassers on how to elicit honest information.他指导调查员如何获得真实的信息。
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canvass
Residents told canvassers about their battles to get health care coverage.
A clip-boarded canvasser sought reactions at the market.
Going door-to-door has been eye-opening for canvassers.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Questioning people & asking questions in general
ask after someone
ask questions of someone/somethingidiom
be someone's for the askingidiom
beat something out of someone
bombard
consultative
Gallup poll
inquisition
pin someone down
ply someone with something
poll
pry
put someone through the millidiom
put someone through the wringeridiom
put someone to somethingidiom
rhetorical question
roll
shoot
survey
trick question

Examples of canvasser


canvasser
Do people lie to the canvassers as an easy (if macabre) way of getting rid of them?
This section was responsible for the organisation and training of female speakers, canvassers and activities.
In addition, they were asked which party each canvasser represented.
The canvassers were predominantly postgraduate students, who were enthusiastic about raising electoral turnout, had a good knowledge of the research topic, and an interest in the objectives of the project.
This strategy could work well where telephone canvassers have a list of numbers to call but where there may be insufficient resources to attempt to contact them all.
I believe there was some complaint of statements which were made by the canvassers at a recent by-election of agreeable memory.
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They have had plenty of miscellaneous exhortation, in eloquent speeches, in gaudy posters and from earnest canvassers.
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Being a political canvasser or campaigner is a form of active citizenship.
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He gets about everywhere, he is usually a very good mixer, a good canvasser, a good ambassador.
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During a recent election one of my canvassers was bitten by a dog and had to be taken to hospital.
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It stated that, when canvassers tried to obtain information from council estates, they were sent packing.
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They say that, as a result of a strong anti-suffrage canvassers' canvass, there is a majority against the suffrage.
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He cannot be any good at all to the society unless he helps along the agent or canvasser; otherwise the money would be thrown away.
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That is usually the work of the special canvasser, and he is a man rather higher in rank than the ordinary agent.
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I know that not only because of our doorstep canvassers and the distinct change that took place in the week before the referendum.
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