doorknock
doorknock noun: a campaign of going from house to house knocking on doors, such as for a charity appeal.
Noun
doorknock (plural doorknocks)
- A campaign of going from house to house knocking on doors, such as for a charity appeal.
- Sometimes they were raffles, mostly they were doorknocks. I went on one of the doorknocks after Wendy talked me into it.1981, Graham Jackson, Square Crib, page 98
- To run a doorknock you need volunteer collectors — lots of them. But because there are so many doorknocks each year, collectors are overloaded and it is difficult to recruit new ones.
So what is the answer?1995, John Montague Gurney, N. E. Renton, Successful Clubs, page 53
Verb
doorknock (third-person singular simple present doorknocks, present participle doorknocking, simple past and past participle doorknocked)
- To participate in a campaign of going from house to house knocking on doors; to knock on the door (of a house) during such a campaign.
- During the doorknocking local residents had talked about other issues.1979, Fatma Dharamsi, et al., Harlesden Community Project, Community Work And Caring For Children: A Community Project In An Inner City Local Authority, page 440
- With some exceptions, doorknocking is likely to elicit a large number of small donations but relatively few large donations.2007, Philip Hughes, Alan Black, Peter Kaldor, Building Stronger Communities, page 156
Examples of doorknock in a sentence
- […] mobile phone providers have sent text messages to Victorian customers warning them of the conditions, in what has been described as an "electronic doorknock".2009 March 2, Holly Ife with AAP, “CFA and DSE warn of fires threatening Victoria, deny exaggeration”, in Herald Sun, archived from the...
- ‘He doorknocked thirty-two thousand houses,’ Thérèse says. ‘I doorknocked with him at weekends.2007, Robert Macklin, Kevin Rudd: The Biography, unnumbered page:
Forms of doorknock
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | doorknocks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | doorknocks |
| present participle | doorknocking |
| past participle | doorknocked |
| past | doorknocked |
Origin of doorknock
From door + knock.
Questions about doorknock
- What does doorknock mean?
- Doorknock means a campaign of going from house to house knocking on doors, such as for a charity appeal.
- How do you use doorknock in a sentence?
- […] mobile phone providers have sent text messages to Victorian customers warning them of the conditions, in what has been described as an "electronic doorknock".
- What part of speech is doorknock?
- Doorknock can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of doorknock?
- The plural of doorknock is doorknocks.
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