doorknock
/ˈdɔːnɒk
/Australian /NZ
noun
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...
- The doorknock appeal is designed to reach people we normally wouldn't come in contact with by going to their homes.
- 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.
- I can tell you what I got on my doorknock on the weekend at a few houses.
verb [no object]
Campaign by making door-to-door house visits.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....
- Houses were doorknocked door-to-door, but nothing came out of that.
- 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.