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adjective

door-to-door adj.

Direct without intermediate changes of vehicle; of e.g. journeys or deliveries; as, the limousine offers direct door-to-door service.

Omitting no one; from the door of one house to that of the next; as, a door-to-door solicitation, canvass, or campaign.

Synonyms: house-to-house.

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Etymology of 'Door-to-door'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Sometimes he wished he could have gone right on being what he once had been. After all, there was nothing wrong in living in cheap hotels and even cheaper rooming houses; there was nothing wrong in being a lackadaisical door-to-door salesman ...

— The Servant Problem • Robert F. Young

... purpose," I told her, "of teaching the members something about commerce and industry. They manufacture simple compositions like polishing waxes and sell them from door-to-door. Some groups have built up tidy little bank accounts which are available ...

— Junior Achievement • William Lee

... promotes First Amendment values in the same way that the historical use of traditional public fora for speaking, handbilling, and protesting testifies to their effectiveness as vehicles for free speech. Cf. Martin, 319 U.S. at 145 ("The widespread use of this method of communication [door-to-door distribution of leaflets] by many groups espousing various causes attests its major importance."); Schneider v. State, 308 U.S. 147, 164 (1939) ("[P]amphlets have proved most effective instruments in the dissemination of opinion."). The provision of Internet ...

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