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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
doorstep
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
arrive
▪ Too often, he says, we only recognise an opportunity when it arrives back on our doorstep as an import.
▪ Paul, much less consulting him as to where to live, she simply literally arrived on his doorstep.
▪ Sometimes they are not even informed that the waste is hazardous before it arrives on their doorstep.
▪ One problem is the constant flow of visitors who arrive unannounced on my doorstep.
▪ Telephone? Arrive on the doorstep?
leave
▪ Elaine could have left you on a doorstep, wrapped in a tea-towel.
▪ Occasionally, a baby is left on our doorstep.
▪ She has five hedgehogs hibernating in mounds of leaves and a kestrel which was left on her doorstep with a damaged foot.
▪ It just gets left on the doorstep with the milk, doesn't it.
sit
▪ He sat on his own doorstep and tried to think what to do.
▪ She sat on the kitchen doorstep, knees wide apart, frowning.
▪ Father worn out from the beating he had administered, sat on the doorstep smoking his pipe.
▪ I was smoking a pipe, sat down on a doorstep.
▪ Uncle Henry sat upon the doorstep and looked anxiously at the sky, which was even greyer than usual.
stand
▪ I stood there on my doorstep with him, and I actually considered it.
▪ The owner was standing on the doorstep and observing my predicament with satisfaction.
▪ Lord Lane said: Oppression does not stand on the doorstep with a toothbrush moustache and a swastika armband.
▪ I stood on the doorstep alone, pressing my lids together, breathing in, breathing out.
▪ I stood on her doorstep and started hooting with laughter.
▪ Detective Sergeant Maxham was standing on the doorstep.
▪ I was touched when my dad told me that every night he stood on the back doorstep and said goodnight to John.
turn
▪ Landladies had mysteriously found tenants in the few minutes between a telephone inquiry and one's turning up on the doorstep.
▪ My guess is you turned up on the doorstep during business hours with some papers for Marty to sign.
▪ That is being done, so many people may turn up on our doorsteps not with their tanks but with their suitcases.
▪ The phone kept ringing and no one there, and then he turned up on the doorstep.
▪ Indeed, the governments of the region seem quite ungrateful when the well-meaning secretary of state turns up on their doorsteps.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A cat sat patiently on the doorstep.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A dark and lovely young woman smiled at her from the doorstep.
▪ But it wasn't funny this morning when the police arrived on the doorstep.
▪ He just felt it was easier to step across the state line and have people groveling at your doorstep.
▪ His father buried the membrane beneath the doorstep.
▪ She stood paralysed for several moments on Giles Carnaby's doorstep.
▪ Then there is its well preserved old quarter, and on the doorstep a romantic, well wooded and castle-adorned countryside.
▪ They say I had the vanity to go down to Croisset and make an embarrassing scene on his doorstep.
▪ Thomas Hewett was off duty and having a quiet glass of stout and a chinwag on his front doorstep.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Doorstep

Doorstep \Door"step`\, n. The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
doorstep

1810, from door + step (n.).

Wiktionary
doorstep

n. step of a door. The threshold of a doorway. vb. (context transitive journalism English) To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.

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WordNet
doorstep

n. the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offer support when passing through a doorway [syn: doorsill, threshold]

Wikipedia
Doorstep (company)

Doorstep is a Norwegian company.

It was established in 2000, and was meant to develop a web portal for online trade. It was a cooperation between telecommunications company Telenor and Den norske Bank. Chairman was Petter Jansen, and among the board members were Gunn Wærsted, Jon Fredrik Baksaas and Ingvild Myhre. The goal was to create the largest market place of its kind in Norway. However the chief executive officer Knut Oppegaard quit in March 2001 and was replaced by Ann-Kristin Hageløkken. The portal had not yet been opened. The plans were then significantly altered in April 2001, as the plans for online trading were cut. It shared its fate with several dot-com companies, although the company would use the .no top-level domain instead of .com.

The company still exists, with the purpose of "business development". Jon Fredrik Baksaas is a member of the board, which is now chaired by Rune Bjerke.

Usage examples of "doorstep".

Niccolini feared that His Holiness and the Holy Office, having made a great show of dragging Galileo to their doorstep, would not admit to having blundered by arresting an innocent man.

Mother and I unhitched Bor from the sledge and followed, pulling the horse behind us up the steep bank that formed the doorstep.

Here Art is no benignant goddess, but a Circe who turns her wooers into mewing Toms and Tabbies who linger about the doorsteps of her abode, unmindful of the flying brickbats and boot-jacks of the critics.

The Dunster cuisine considered almost entirely of bacon and eggs, eaten with doorsteps of fried bread and cups of strong tea, so that about their home the smell of burning fat indicated that a traditional English breakfast was available at all hours of the day and night.

Fleming had found him, he said, on his doorstep, fike a patient come to call.

Red Squads, doorstep fugitives, or movie shots most of all those framable pieces of the time, which had demanded, when the bookkeeping was done, damn near everything.

The knight would be mad as hell about Bodger and Grift turning up on the doorstep, and even madder about the note.

Snarling at the happenstance, Mardasper was thundering down the long, narrow back stair before the intruder could have reached the doorstep.

Sophie, by hobbling furiously, managed to get one foot up on its doorstep.

Cleaner and not so ragged kids under school age played in the better-looking streets, and here and there mums were seen whitening their doorsteps.

Tommy Phan coming home in his brand-new car to find a strange little doll lying on his doorstep.

When Cerwin showed up on the doorstep today, you charged directly into battle, only sending Rache to tell me about it as an afterthought.

Mrs Ruddle, on the doorstep, was holding a kind of court among the reporters.

The Sots, though they might harass women they suspected of being whores in and around their own stronghold or inside churches, had not yet become brave enough to go after the Scarlet Women at their own doorsteps.

Neither was my intimate in Tarbet, and I daresay neither would be overjoyed to suddenly have me turning up on their doorstep now.