A campaign of door-to-door house visits to collect for a charity or to appeal for support for a political candidate.
〈澳／新西兰〉（为慈善机构募款或为政党候选人寻求支持的）逐户拜访
as modifiera doorknock appeal
逐户家访的呼吁。
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The doorknock appeal is designed to reach people we normally wouldn't come in contact with by going to their homes.
‘We need about 200 people to help with the doorknock,’ he said.
I can tell you what I got on my doorknock on the weekend at a few houses.
We started the doorknocks in 1994 with three purposes.
In this way we are self-terrorising - there's no need for 4 a.m. doorknocks and re-education camps.
It aims to raise $6 million on doorknock weekend.
‘We are especially appreciative of the dedicated commitment from volunteers and organisers of the annual doorknock which raised $141,000,’ he said.
I also personally did a randomized doorknock survey in Glasgow for publication in the academic journals - and several journals did in fact publish the results.
verbˈdɔːnɒk
[no object]Australian, NZ
Campaign by making door-to-door house visits.
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So I always found going to events and doorknocking shaped the kind of priorities that I had.
He said average donations appeared to be down and it's probable more people were not at home when doorknocked.
From next year, Year 10 and 11 students would have to do 20 hours of community service - from doorknocking to coaching sport teams - over the two years.
This was a man who has spent the previous four weeks doorknocking in the Liberal cause.
I also signed up to go doorknocking tomorrow night and to drive voters to the polls on election day.
Houses were doorknocked door-to-door, but nothing came out of that.
So when a woman and her husband turned up one day, doorknocking for the National Party, my grandmother invited them in.
She goes doorknocking and finds an electorate largely uninformed when it comes to local politics.
Anyone who has ever done doorknocking for a party will probably find this just as funny as I did.
It is now looking for at least 250 volunteers to help doorknock on the day.
I'll be doing some doorknocking this weekend, and working on the next campaign push from our team.
More importantly, local residents were surprised that people were out doorknocking - they thought it was a practice of a by-gone era, so hopefully we will have earned their vote in part by showing we are prepared to work for it.
One day while working, doorknocking and giving away free tickets to a holiday, as long as they had a free demonstration in exchange, I got the feeling again.
I doorknocked about 30 houses, got about 20 at home, and only 3 of those didn't give a few dollars, despite being disturbed late on a Sunday Morning by a complete stranger.
I spent a couple of hours this afternoon doorknocking up and down.
Most importantly they ran strong grassroots campaigns with the candidates solidly doorknocking and getting out and about over the past year or so.
This has forced candidates to do much more doorknocking and to make themselves more accessible to voters over a period of time.
They managed to convince me to go doorknocking for them.
She doorknocks and finds voters concerned about traffic but unsure politicians will fix it.
Join us to drop literature, doorknock in the neighborhoods, or join the campaign planning team.