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单词 doorknock
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Definition of doorknock in English:

doorknock

nounˈdɔːnɒk
Australian, NZ
  • A campaign of door-to-door house visits to collect for a charity or to appeal for support for a political candidate.

    as modifier a doorknock appeal
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The doorknock appeal is designed to reach people we normally wouldn't come in contact with by going to their homes.
    • ‘We need about 200 people to help with the doorknock,’ he said.
    • I can tell you what I got on my doorknock on the weekend at a few houses.
    • We started the doorknocks in 1994 with three purposes.
    • In this way we are self-terrorising - there's no need for 4 a.m. doorknocks and re-education camps.
    • It aims to raise $6 million on doorknock weekend.
    • ‘We are especially appreciative of the dedicated commitment from volunteers and organisers of the annual doorknock which raised $141,000,’ he said.
    • I also personally did a randomized doorknock survey in Glasgow for publication in the academic journals - and several journals did in fact publish the results.
verbˈdɔːnɒk
[no object]Australian, NZ
  • Campaign by making door-to-door house visits.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • So I always found going to events and doorknocking shaped the kind of priorities that I had.
    • He said average donations appeared to be down and it's probable more people were not at home when doorknocked.
    • From next year, Year 10 and 11 students would have to do 20 hours of community service - from doorknocking to coaching sport teams - over the two years.
    • This was a man who has spent the previous four weeks doorknocking in the Liberal cause.
    • I also signed up to go doorknocking tomorrow night and to drive voters to the polls on election day.
    • Houses were doorknocked door-to-door, but nothing came out of that.
    • So when a woman and her husband turned up one day, doorknocking for the National Party, my grandmother invited them in.
    • She goes doorknocking and finds an electorate largely uninformed when it comes to local politics.
    • Anyone who has ever done doorknocking for a party will probably find this just as funny as I did.
    • It is now looking for at least 250 volunteers to help doorknock on the day.
    • I'll be doing some doorknocking this weekend, and working on the next campaign push from our team.
    • More importantly, local residents were surprised that people were out doorknocking - they thought it was a practice of a by-gone era, so hopefully we will have earned their vote in part by showing we are prepared to work for it.
    • One day while working, doorknocking and giving away free tickets to a holiday, as long as they had a free demonstration in exchange, I got the feeling again.
    • I doorknocked about 30 houses, got about 20 at home, and only 3 of those didn't give a few dollars, despite being disturbed late on a Sunday Morning by a complete stranger.
    • I spent a couple of hours this afternoon doorknocking up and down.
    • Most importantly they ran strong grassroots campaigns with the candidates solidly doorknocking and getting out and about over the past year or so.
    • This has forced candidates to do much more doorknocking and to make themselves more accessible to voters over a period of time.
    • They managed to convince me to go doorknocking for them.
    • She doorknocks and finds voters concerned about traffic but unsure politicians will fix it.
    • Join us to drop literature, doorknock in the neighborhoods, or join the campaign planning team.
 
 
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