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OPEN DOOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Freedom of access
Example:
he maintained an open door for all employees
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("open door" is a kind of...):
door (anything providing a means of access (or escape))
Sense 2
Meaning:
The policy of granting equal trade opportunities to all countries
Synonyms:
open-door policy; open door
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("open door" is a kind of...):
national trading policy; trade policy (a government's policy controlling foreign trade)
Context examples:
Entering at the open door of one of these, and releasing my arm, she beckoned me to follow her up the common staircase, which was like a tributary channel to the street.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Through the open door he could catch glimpses of the luggage on the floor.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
So rapid had been her movements that in spite of the Tilneys' advantage in the outset, they were but just turning into their lodgings as she came within view of them; and the servant still remaining at the open door, she used only the ceremony of saying that she must speak with Miss Tilney that moment, and hurrying by him proceeded upstairs.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The two horses were left standing, with the glare of the open door falling upon their brown shoulders and patient heads.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I heard him go as I stood at the half-open door of my own room, to which I had now withdrawn.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Terror—not beauty—was what sprang first to the eye as our fair visitor stood framed for an instant in the open door.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
From the open door there reeked a horrible poisonous exhalation which set us gasping and coughing.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So saying, the stranger backed along with me into the parlour and put me behind him in the corner so that we were both hidden by the open door.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The others gave back, and gathered in a half circle round the open door, gnashing their teeth and shaking their clenched hands at the defenders.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He steal two pounds of flour. For that, white man take plenty good care of him. Mobits eat many pounds of flour, many pounds of sugar, of bacon, of beans without end. Also, Mobits drink much tea. After three months white man open door and tell Mobits he must go. Mobits does not want to go.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
