DOOR-TO-DOOR Definition & Meaning

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door-to-door

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

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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.

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First recorded in 1900–05

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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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"Unfortunately we get complaints about rogue traders calling door-to-door every week," Mr Doherty said.

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