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open door
1. a. A door standing open to give access or admission; hence used fig. to typify free admission or access, freedom of admission.
1526Tindale Rev. iii. 8 Beholde I have set before the an open doore and no man can shutt hit. 1865Lowell Ode Harvard Commem. xi, She of the open soul and open door, With room about her hearth for all mankind.
b. Internat. Politics. Admission to a country, esp. for purposes of commercial intercourse, open to all upon equal terms. Used esp. c 1898 with reference to Chinese ports.
1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Result Wks. (Bohn) II. 134 England keeps open doors, as a trading country must, to all nations. 1898Sir M. Hicks Beach Sp. Swansea 17 Jan., If we wanted to keep open doors for our commerce..we must be prepared in savage countries to incur territorial responsibilities. [Ibid., [As to China] The Government were absolutely determined, at whatever cost,..that that door should not be shut. ]1898Daily News 25 Jan. 4/7 Why should Russia object to the policy of the open door which has been proclaimed..as the essence of British policy? 1898Times 1 Mar. 9/5 The incidents which suggest doubts as to the adoption of the policy of the open door by our rivals in the Far East. 1898Sir E. Monson Sp. 6 Dec., Although we cannot insist upon that ‘open door’ which has latterly become a household word in our mouths.
attrib.1898Atlantic Monthly LXXXII. 438/1 Coöperation between this republic and Great Britain as to the furtherance of the open door policy. 1900Daily News 22 Oct. 5/3 Both Governments agree in maintaining the open door principle in all regions where they can exert any influence. 1927New Republic 21 Sept. 108/1 There is some merit in the general plea for ‘most-favored nation’ treatment, if only under the open-door policy. 1964Listener 1 Oct. 492/2 Not only Americans, but almost everyone else thinks of the ‘open-door’ doctrine as American. 1974Times 14 Dec. 13/5 Israel's open door policy to Jewish refugees from all parts of the world. 1976Listener 9 Sept. 302/3 The Americans stood by their own open door policy—that China, just like every other part of the world except the United States, should be wide open to everybody's trade.
2. Sc. Law. letters of open doors: see quots.
[1693Stair Inst. Law Scot. iv. xlvii. §40 Letters for making patent Doors, when Parties keep themselves or their Goods within locked Doors, and do not give access thereto, for executing of Caption or Poynding.] 1861W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. s.v., Letters of Open Doors..authorise the messenger to break open the doors of those places in which the goods of the debtor are lodged.
3. attrib.
a. (ˈopen-ˌdoor). Done with open doors, public.
1899Westm. Gaz. 9 Aug. 2/2 The open-door proceedings are hardly less puzzling.
b. Designating a mental hospital in which patients are allowed the maximum freedom of movement and communication.
1958Spectator 11 July 49/1 All over the country mental hospitals have been converting to the ‘Open Door’ system. 1969Daily Tel. 1 Nov. 2 The modern vogue for open-door mental hospitals, far from improving conditions for some patients, has led to reprehensible methods of restraining them. Ibid., Plain common sense..required that such patients be managed in a secure environment and not in an open-door system. 1977Lancet 18 June 1302/1 A total open-door policy is considered to be progressive; but in practice it means that mentally ill people who lack insight and are troublesome..cannot be contained there for treatment.
Hence ˌopen-ˈdoored a., having the door open; hence, ready to take in or receive; keeping open house, hospitable.
1839Bailey Festus ix. (1852) 97 The open doored cottages and blazing hearth. 1842Sir H. Taylor Edwin the Fair iv. i. (D.), Some, Whose ears are open-doored to phantoms. 1859Tennyson Enid 302 A house Once rich, now poor, but ever open-door'd. |