Doorknock
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Doorknock is a noun meaning (Australia, New Zealand) A campaign of going from house to house knocking on doors, such as for a charity appeal.
Meaning
(Australia, New Zealand) A campaign of going from house to house knocking on doors, such as for a charity appeal.
More Meanings
- (chiefly Australia, New Zealand) 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.
Example Sentences
Sometimes they were raffles, mostly they were doorknocks. I went on one of the doorknocks after Wendy talked me into it.
With some exceptions, doorknocking is likely to elicit a large number of small donations but relatively few large donations.
[…] mobile phone providers have sent text messages to Victorian customers warning them of the conditions, in what has been described as an "electronic doorknock".
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?
Word Forms
- doorknocks
- doorknocking
- doorknocked
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include doorstop, door-knob, dunch, dooring, door-nail, donk.
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