Doorknocker vs Doorknocked - What's the difference?
doorknocker | doorknocked |
(doorknock)
(Australia, NZ) A campaign of going from house to house knocking on doors, such as for a charity appeal.
* 1981 , Graham Jackson, Square Crib ,
* 1995 , John Montague Gurney, N. E. Renton, Successful Clubs ,
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(chiefly, Australia, NZ) 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.
* 1979 , Fatma Dharamsi, et al., Community Project, Community Work And Caring For Children: A Community Project In An Inner City Local Authority ,
* 2007 , Philip Hughes, Alan Black, Peter Kaldor, Building Stronger Communities ,
* 2007 , Robert Macklin, Kevin Rudd: The Biography ,
As a noun doorknocker
is a knocker mounted on a door.As a verb doorknocked is
past tense of doorknock.doorknocker
English
(wikipedia doorknocker)Alternative forms
* door knocker * door-knockerSynonyms
* knockerdoorknocked
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Verb
(head)doorknock
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Noun
(en noun)page 98,
- Sometimes they were raffles, mostly they were doorknocks'. I went on one of the ' doorknocks after Wendy talked me into it.
page 53,
- 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?
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Verb
(en verb)page 440,
- During the doorknocking local residents had talked about other issues.
page 156,
- With some exceptions, doorknocking is likely to elicit a large number of small donations but relatively few large donations.
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- ‘He doorknocked' thirty-two thousand houses,’ Thérèse says. ‘I doorknocked with him at weekends. That?s one way to get fit, especially when every house that I ' doorknocked was high-set, but I took the formal period of the campaign off.’