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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"He'd go from door-to-door in all of these really conservative neighborhoods and engage with people, debate and try to persuade them, but without changing who he is and what he believes," Barkan said.

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David White, 29, runs a door-to-door sales business and speaks to "two or three hundred different people a day".

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Macron might as well have been a door-to-door salesman.

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Ye has apparently reached the "going door-to-door trying to shock people" stage of his career.

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Between March and May 2022, the jury heard, the woman said Mr Silver came to her house with a police colleague conducting door-to-door inquiries.

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doorstop doorway

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