DOOR-TO-DOOR Definition & Meaning

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door-to-door

[dawr-tuh-dawr, dohr-tuh-dohr]

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adjective

calling, selling, canvassing, etc., at each house or apartment in an area, town, or the like.
a door-to-door poll.
sent direct from the point of pickup to the point of delivery, as a shipment or order of merchandise.
covering the complete route of a door-to-door shipment, delivery, etc..
door-to-door carrying charges; door-to-door insurance.

adverb

in a door-to-door manner.

door to door

adjective

(of selling, canvassing, etc) from one house to the next
(of journeys, deliveries, etc) direct

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of door-to-door¹

First recorded in 1900–05

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Idioms and Phrases

Calling at each house, apartment, store, etc. in an area, in order to deliver, sell, or ask for something. For example, We were asked to go door to door to collect enough signatures . [c. 1900]

Sent from a place of origin or pickup to a place of delivery. For example, They quoted me a price for door to door, as well as a lower one if I would pick up the goods myself . This usage is nearly always applied to a shipment of merchandise.

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Example Sentences

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Police are now going door-to-door, visiting past residences to arrest those who are still on the run.

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Saturday evening, multiple law enforcement agencies had descended on the neighborhood and were going door-to-door around the area.

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He lived there with his maternal grandmother, who is now busy going door-to-door to her relatives, asking them for help.

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Since the final sighting officers have conducted door-to-door inquiries at more than 200 homes and obtained over 1,000 hours of CCTV.

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Many of them did away with the door-to-door aspect entirely, and it was all about recruiting people on the internet.

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