Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
house-to-house \house-to-house\ adj. omitting no one; proceeding from the door of one house to that of the next; as, house-to-house canvassing.
Syn: door-to-door.
WordNet
adj. omitting no one; from the door of one house to that of the next; "a door-to-door campaign"; "house-to-house coverage" [syn: door-to-door]
Usage examples of "house-to-house".
The small settlement, to whose teahouses the monks went for their dissipations, was a landing-place for vessels plying back and forth across the lake, and the bawdyhouses buzzed with excitement when Kiyomori and his troopers arrived to surround it in a house-to-house search.
He went into a town, persuaded an influential farmer to go about with him in a house-to-house canvass, talked to the other farmers of the vicinity, stirred them up to interest and excitement, organized a Grange, and then left the town.
If they didn’t move decisively, if they didn’t shock the enemy and keep them off balance, they could quickly find themselves bogged down in a house-to-house fight where they would be outnumbered—an entrenched street-by-street battle against a well-seasoned force that was not known for taking prisoners.
Over a cup of muckefuk, as the coffee substitute was called, we thought back to the battle of Normandy, to the terrible events in the Falaise pocket and, of course, to the bitter house-to-house fighting in Rittershoffen.
Doomed by nonsupport from the Irish Volunteers and the country at large, the rebellion failed after a week of bloody house-to-house combat that leveled much of Dublin's center and resulted in 130 British soldiers dead.
It is like a mock-up slapped together from tar paper and canvas, like the fake towns where they practiced house-to-house warfare during boot camp.