canvassing
noun
- systematic contact with individuals, commonly used during political campaigns
Wiktionary
noun
- The act of one who canvasses or solicits.
“The thoroughness required by your explicit instructions, together with the strong desire that these repeated canvassings should be executed in so careful a manner as to establish reliable data, has no doubt tended materially to produce the gratifying result.”
verb
- present participle and gerund of canvass