door-knocking
Visiting homes uninvited
Door-knocking is the practice of going from house to house, knocking on doors to speak with residents—typically for political canvassing, sales, or surveys.
The term emphasizes the systematic, repetitive nature of the activity: The campaign's door-knocking effort reached thousands of voters.
As a modifier: door-knocking volunteers, door-knocking campaign.
Systematic direct voter outreach
- campaigningActively pursuing political support
- voter outreachEfforts to reach electors
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
- petitionFormal written appeal
volunteers · election · clipboard · flyers · pamphlets · registration · mobilization · get-out-the-vote
Unsolicited sales contact
- solicitingActively seeking responses
- pitchingDelivering toward the plate
- prospectingSearching for mineral wealth
- direct salesSelling straight to consumers
representatives · vacuum cleaners · encyclopedias · commission · territory · samples · demonstrations · rejection
Sequential listing of items
- surveyorsProperty line determiners
- questionnaireFormal inquiry form
- governmentAuthority over a state
- demographicsStatistical population characteristics
data collection · households · population count · official · clipboard · ID badge · follow-up · nonresponse
Promoting beliefs to others
- proselytizingSeeking converts zealously
- missionariesReligious workers abroad
- Jehovah's WitnessesChristian restorationist movement
- MormonLatter-day Saint adherent
pamphlets · tracts · conversion · outreach · witnessing · scripture · salvation · congregation
canvassing
Systematic direct voter outreach
- campaigningActively pursuing political support
- voter outreachEfforts to reach electors
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
petition · volunteers · election · clipboard · flyers · pamphlets · registration · mobilization · get-out-the-vote · swing district
cold calling
Unsolicited sales contact
- solicitingActively seeking responses
- pitchingDelivering toward the plate
- prospectingSearching for mineral wealth
direct sales · representatives · vacuum cleaners · encyclopedias · commission · territory · samples · demonstrations · rejection · persistence
enumeration
Sequential listing of items
- surveyorsProperty line determiners
- questionnaireFormal inquiry form
- governmentAuthority over a state
demographics · data collection · households · population count · official · clipboard · ID badge · follow-up · nonresponse · dwelling
evangelism
Promoting beliefs to others
- proselytizingSeeking converts zealously
- missionariesReligious workers abroad
- Jehovah's WitnessesChristian restorationist movement
Mormon · pamphlets · tracts · conversion · outreach · witnessing · scripture · salvation · congregation · ministry
- evangelismgospel outreach, evangelize, evangelist, born again, evangelizing
- mobilizingmobilizing, rallying, organizing, mustering, marshaling
door-knockingphone banking
Financial services by telephone
cold calling · digital advertising · direct mail · television advertising · radio advertising
door, knock, doors, knocks, knocked, knocking, knocker, knockers, doorway