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door to door

door to door adverb: from one household or business to the next. Also the alternative spelling of door-to-door.

Adverb

door to door (not comparable)

  1. (metonymically) From one household or business to the next.
    • He carried the petition door to door, collecting signatures.
    • He sold magazine subscriptions at inflated prices door to door.
  2. (metonymically) From ultimate origin to ultimate destination.
    • The trip takes sixteen hours door to door.
    1. (metonymically, by further extension) From shipper to recipient.
      • The express company could only handle shipments door to door on the West Coast, needing others to reach the rest of the country.
    2. (metonymically, by further extension) From inception to final completion.
      • It was purely a CIA operation, door to door.

Also used as

door to door is also the alternative spelling of door-to-door.

Forms of door to door

alternative initialismD2D

Questions about door to door

What does door to door mean?
Door to door means from one household or business to the next.
What part of speech is door to door?
Door to door is an adverb.

Words near door to door in the dictionary

  1. door seal
  2. door seals
  3. door snail
  4. door snails
  5. DOOR syndrome
  6. door to door
  7. door wench
  8. door wenches
  9. door-bell
  10. door-bells
  11. door-frame

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