canvass
/ˈkæn·vəs/ v [I/T]Definition
› to go to each house in an area to find out how many people live there or what their opinions are, or to get support: [T] Candidates canvassed the city’s neighborhoods for votes.
(Definition of canvass v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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