door-to-door
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Visiting or including every house in an area: Describes an activity, such as selling, campaigning, or surveying, that is conducted by going from one house to the next without omission.
- Direct from point of origin to point of destination: Describes a service, especially a journey or delivery, that takes a person or item directly from the starting location to the final destination without intermediate stops or transfers.
Usage
- The adjective "door-to-door" is typically used before a noun to modify it (e.g., , ).
- It describes the comprehensive or direct nature of an activity or service.
Examples
- Adjective:
- The charity organized a door-to-door collection for the food bank.
- We offer door-to-door airport transfers for all hotel guests.
- The political candidate relied on door-to-door canvassing to reach voters.
Advanced Usage
- "to go door-to-door": This verb phrase describes the action of conducting an activity by visiting houses sequentially.
- Volunteers will go door-to-door to raise awareness about the new recycling program.
Variants and Related Words
- House-to-house: An adjective with a nearly identical meaning to the first sense of "door-to-door," emphasizing visits to each house.
- The police conducted a house-to-house inquiry.
Synonyms
- Direct (for the service/delivery sense): proceeding without deviation or interruption.
- From house to house: a descriptive phrase for the visiting sense.
Related Phrases
- Door-to-door salesperson: A person whose job involves selling products by visiting people's homes.
- He worked as a door-to-door salesperson for a vacuum cleaner company.
Adjective
- omitting no one; from the door of one house to that of the next
- a door-to-door campaign
- house-to-house coverage
- (of e.g. journeys or deliveries) direct from point of origin to point of destination
- the limousine offers door-to-door service