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: going or made by going to each house in a neighborhood
door-to-door salespeople
a door-to-door canvass
door-to-door adverb

Examples of door-to-door in a Sentence

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Once the packages were ready, volunteers delivered them door-to-door across Akron, Ohio. Denny Alfonso, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2025 Of the changes, the government called on Canada Post to end door-to-door delivery for 4 million addresses, instead converting those addresses to community mailboxes. Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 24 Nov. 2025 Suresh allegedly posed as a door-to-door accountant looking for clients to coax Brimmer into speaking with him at Brimmer’s home. Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 22 Nov. 2025 Los Angeles Police Department officers were expected to go door-to-door in particularly high-risk neighborhoods to contact residents. Tom Tapp, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for door-to-door

Word History

First Known Use

1902, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of door-to-door was in 1902

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“Door-to-door.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/door-to-door. Accessed 8 Dec. 2025.

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door-to-door

adjective
ˌdōrt-ə-ˈdō(ə)r
ˌdȯrt-ə-ˈdȯ(ə)r
: being or making a call (as to sell something) at every house in an area
door-to-door adverb
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