housecall

See also: house-call and house call

English

Noun

housecall (plural housecalls)

1. Alternative spelling of house call

Verb

housecall (third-person singular simple present housecalls, present participle housecalling, simple past and past participle housecalled)

1. To go from house to house, visiting people and trying to persuade them to a cause, especially on behalf of a labor union; to doorknock.
   • 1993, Labor Research Review - Issues 20-21, page 41:

     Overcoming racial and ethnic divisions starts by asking each other questions, housecalling together, going to events together— the practical experiences of building a union.

   • 2000, Staughton Lynd, Alice Lynd, The New Rank and File, →ISBN, page 51:

     So I started housecalling myself. The door always opened. I went around housecalling for five months in Charlotte and the surrounding rural area.

   • 2000, New Labor Forum - Issues 6-9, page 19:

     I was assigned to housecall them, and I told the lead organizer that I was a lesbian and asked if that would be a problem, would my sexuality become a dividing issue on the campaign.

Anagrams

• call house