door-to-door

See also: door to door

English

Adjective

door-to-door (not comparable)

1. Going from house to house, when selling, delivering or asking for something.
2. Sent or delivered from a store or factory directly to a house.
   • 1959 November, “The British Association looks at British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 545:

     They must secure a higher share of the consumer goods which require transport not from siding-to-siding, but door-to-door.

Alternative forms

• door to door

Translations

going from house to house

• Czech: podomní prodej m
• Finnish: ovelta ovelle (fi)
• French: porte-à-porte (fr)
• Georgian: კარდაკარ (ḳardaḳar)
• German: Tür-zu-Tür
• Greek: πόρτα-πόρτα (pórta-pórta)
• Italian: porta a porta
• Portuguese: porta-a-porta
• Russian: покварти́рный (ru) (pokvartírnyj), подомово́й (podomovój)

sent or delivered directly to a house

• Finnish: kotiinkuljetettu
• Russian: сквозно́й (ru) (skvoznój)

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Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} porte-à-porte (fr)