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doorstep

[dawr-step, dohr-]

noun

  1. a step or one of a series of steps leading from the ground to a door.

  2. British Slang.a thick slice of bread.



doorstep

/ ˈɔːˌɛ /

noun

  1. a step in front of a door

  2. very close or accessible

  3. informala thick slice of bread

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to canvass (a district) or interview (a member of the public) by or in the course of door-to-door visiting

  2. (of a journalist) to wait outside the house of (someone) to obtain an interview, photograph, etc when he or she emerges

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of doorstep1

First recorded in 1800–10; door + step
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Idioms and Phrases

see under at one's door (on one's doorstep).
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The city of Brooklyn Park was silent on Sunday morning as the neighbourhood came to terms with a suspected political assassination on its doorstep.

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"There's this phrase you hear occasionally, that the danger is on our doorstep. Well, it's a big doorstep if that is true… Beijing is closer to Berlin than it is to Sydney."

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When I started, I thought it was a problem that was far away, but it's on our doorstep.

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"It's a lot closer to home these days. It's on our doorstep."

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Now that the tournament on the doorstep, those plans appear to be crumbling.

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