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(Australia, New Zealand) 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.
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?
[…] mobile phone providers have sent text messages to Victorian customers warning them of the conditions, in what has been described as an "electronic doorknock".
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, During the doorknocking local residents had talked about other issues.
With some exceptions, doorknocking is likely to elicit a large number of small donations but relatively few large donations.
‘He doorknocked thirty-two thousand houses,’ Thérèse says. ‘I doorknocked with him at weekends. That′s one way to get fit, especially when every house that I doorknocked was high-set, but I took the formal period of the campaign off.’
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Doorknock means (Australia, New Zealand) A campaign of going from house to house knocking on doors, such as for a charity appeal..
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Sometimes they were raffles, mostly they were doorknocks. I went on one of the doorknocks after Wendy talked me into it.
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