Housecall

Quick meaning: Housecall is a noun meaning To go from house to house, visiting people and trying to persuade them to a cause, especially on behalf of a labor union; to doorknock.

Meaning

To go from house to house, visiting people and trying to persuade them to a cause, especially on behalf of a labor union; to doorknock.

More Meanings

1. Alternative spelling of house call.

Example Sentences

So I started housecalling myself. The door always opened. I went around housecalling for five months in Charlotte and the surrounding rural area.

Overcoming racial and ethnic divisions starts by asking each other questions, housecalling together, going to events together— the practical experiences of building a union.

I was assigned to housecall them, and I told the lead organizer that I was a lesbian and asked if that would be a problem, would my sexuality become a dividing issue on the campaign.

Word Forms

• housecalls
• housecalling
• housecalled

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include doorstep, knock up, knock, doorbell, trick-or-treat, knock about.

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