door-to-door

[ dawr-tuh-dawr, dohr-tuh-dohr ]

/ ˈdɔr təˈdɔr, ˈdoʊr təˈdoʊr /

calling, selling, canvassing, etc., at each house or apartment in an area, town, or the like: a door-to-door poll.

sent direct from the point of pickup to the point of delivery, as a shipment or order of merchandise.

covering the complete route of a door-to-door shipment, delivery, etc.: door-to-door carrying charges; door-to-door insurance.

in a door-to-door manner.

Origin of door-to-door

First recorded in 1900–05

That makes voter registration and door-to-door campaigning more important than ever.

Scots Must Choose Heart or Head |Nico Hines |September 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Her father lost his job at an opera company because he was Jewish, and had to find work as a door-to-door salesman.

Nazis’ ‘Perfect Aryan’ Child Was Jewish |The Telegraph |July 3, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
And he would go out in this suit like a door-to-door salesman, and basically walked around Boston.

Is Tim Armstrong the Lazarus of Aol.? |Lloyd Grove |December 23, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The World Health Organization (WHO) will pay for the door-to-door vaccination program.

U.N. Prepares for Regional Polio Outbreak in Syria and Lebanon |Josh Rogin |October 31, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

A big section of Watertown was cordoned off and police began a methodical, door-to-door, nerve-straining search.

Boston Suspects Tamerlan & Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, From Boxing to Bombs |Michael Daly |April 20, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Gracious, you wouldn't have to sell from door-to-door, would you?

Junior Achievement |William Lee
They manufacture simple compositions like polishing waxes and sell them from door-to-door.

Junior Achievement |William Lee
Just before the battle of Cerro Gordo there was a door-to-door canvass at Mexico; but only small sums can have been picked up.

The War With Mexico, Volume II (of 2) |Justin H. Smith