housecall

plural housecalls

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of house call.

present singular third person housecalls · participle present housecalling · participle past housecalled · past 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.

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

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

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

   1993, Labor Research Review - Issues 20-21, page 41

   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.

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