doorstepping
doorstepping is the present participle and gerund of doorstep.
Noun
doorstepping (usually uncountable, plural doorsteppings)
- The visiting of one household after another to solicit sales, charitable donations, political support, etc.
- The action of cornering someone for an unexpected interview.
Meaning of doorstep
Verb
doorstep (third-person singular simple present doorsteps, present participle doorstepping, simple past and past participle doorstepped)
- To visit one household after another to solicit sales, charitable donations, political support, etc.
- To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.
- Throughout her time in journalism, she doorstepped politicians, the child of a politician, crime victims, armed robbers, murderers, suspected murderers...1998, Emily O'Reilly, Veronica Guerin: The Life and Death of a Crime Reporter
Forms of doorstepping
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Questions about doorstepping
- What does doorstepping mean?
- Doorstepping means the visiting of one household after another to solicit sales, charitable donations, political support, etc.
- What is doorstepping the present participle and gerund of?
- Doorstepping is the present participle and gerund of doorstep.
- What part of speech is doorstepping?
- Doorstepping is a noun.
- What is the plural of doorstepping?
- The plural of doorstepping is doorsteppings.
Words near doorstepping in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: doorstepping (page history and authors); doorstep (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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