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Meanings of house-to-house in English

Omitting no one; from the door of one house to that of the next.

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        Examples for "door-to-door"
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        Thousands of volunteers are planning a door-to-door campaign in support of independence.
        Reuters
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        City officials have gone door-to-door warning some residents they need to leave.
        Reuters
        3
        Dr McElnay said a door-to-door strategy could be employed in smaller communities.
        Radio NZ
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        We now see politicians on a door-to-door campaign asking for our votes.
        The South African
        5
        We don't have time to go door-to-door down there talking to residents.
        RING
        Usage of house-to-house in English
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        He said distributing aid on a house-to-house basis was logistically too difficult.
        Radio NZ
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        The information was collected by an interview method on a house-to-house basis.
        Pubmed
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        It was first bombed, the centre flattened, before house-to-house operations were conducted.
        The Guardian
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        But the girl coped well with the tension of the house-to-house search.
        Phantoms
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        The pair crept house-to-house like Kevlar-wearing, heavily armed kids playing ding-dong ditch.
        You can't stop me
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        I was out on a recent house-to-house search with Iraqi and U.S. soldiers.
        Wired
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        Thousands of them in brutal house-to-house warfare, their numbers overwhelming our loose perimeter.
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        The army is less experienced in house-to-house fighting, which the rebels have mastered.
        Reuters
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        Conventional house-to-house and nation-to-nation pacification is unwieldy, to say the least.
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        The battle was unexpectedly tough, with house-to-house fighting in the center of town.
        Reuters
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        Gardai appealed for witnesses as detectives conducted house-to-house inquiries at Byrne Avenue, Prospect.
        The Irish Times
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        We can hardly do a house-to-house search for a monster in human form.'
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        Government soldiers carried out house-to-house clean-up operations throughout the afternoon.
        Reuters
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        Which meant The War Tapes could draw on both human drama and house-to-house combat.
        Wired
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        The troops sealed off the area and did house-to-house searches.
        The Irish Times
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        Most of the town was destroyed in fierce house-to-house fighting.
        Reuters
        House-to-house through the time