door-to-door salesman
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdoor-to-doorandsalesman
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door-to-door
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˌdɔː.təˈdɔːr/us/ˌdɔːr.t̬əˈdɔːr/
going from one house or building in an area ...
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salesman
noun[C]
uk/ˈseɪlz.mən/us/ˈseɪlz.mən/
a man whose job is selling things in a shop or directly ...
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(Definition ofdoor-to-doorandsalesmanfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I have had examples given me of extraordinary proceedings wherebydoor-to-doorsalesmanact as moneylenders.
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The second distinction which is not drawn is between thedoor-to-doorsalesmanand the ordinary transaction that takes place in a shop or office.
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One simply cannot have adoor-to-doorsalesmangoing into a house and jockeying a wife into buying all sorts of things.
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On the way out the door he is confronted by adoor-to-doorsalesman.
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His father tried to supplement earnings as adoor-to-doorsalesmanand was accompanied by his son.
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Before becoming a writer, he worked odd jobs including driving a cab, moving furniture, busboy, potter, woodworker, anddoor-to-doorsalesman.
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His first job was as adoor-to-doorsalesmanselling cable to people in their homes.
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He works as adoor-to-doorsalesmanbut his customers do not understand a word he is saying.
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Juan is training as adoor-to-doorsalesman, but when a photographer gives him a viewfinder, it changes his life.
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It enlisted the help of thousands of labourers and dealers, making them into an army of door-to-door salesmen for the programme.
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She will be subjected to direct sales, articles sent without request or offered by persuasive door-to-door salesmen.
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Door-to-door salesmen may be engaged in a variety of ways and liability for national insurance contributions depends upon the particular circumstances of fie employment.
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Door-to-door salesmen may be engaged in a variety of ways and liability for national insurance contributions depends upon the particular circumstances of the employment.
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I believe that the position is very much different from that of door-to-door salesmen, against whom many complaints are made.
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Door-to-door salesmen invade areas, and the advice that is given is either being ignored or failing to work.
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In the higher-bracket management groups salaries are paid that would be disgraceful in the case of door-to-door salesmen.
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The question of door-to-door salesmen, as opposed to the distribution of material, is a highly complex one.
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