"housecall" meaning in English

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        "Alternative spelling of house call"
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  "word": "housecall"
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      "form": "housecalls",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "housecalling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "housecalled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "housecalled",
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        "past"
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1993, Labor Research Review - Issues 20-21, page 41:",
          "text": "Overcoming racial and ethnic divisions starts by asking each other questions, housecalling together, going to events together— the practical experiences of building a union.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Staughton Lynd, Alice Lynd, The New Rank and File, →ISBN, page 51:",
          "text": "So I started housecalling myself. The door always opened. I went around housecalling for five months in Charlotte and the surrounding rural area.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, New Labor Forum - Issues 6-9, page 19:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
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          "doorknock",
          "doorknock"
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
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        {
          "ref": "1993, Labor Research Review - Issues 20-21, page 41:",
          "text": "Overcoming racial and ethnic divisions starts by asking each other questions, housecalling together, going to events together— the practical experiences of building a union.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Staughton Lynd, Alice Lynd, The New Rank and File, →ISBN, page 51:",
          "text": "So I started housecalling myself. The door always opened. I went around housecalling for five months in Charlotte and the surrounding rural area.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, New Labor Forum - Issues 6-9, page 19:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "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."
      ],
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        ],
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          "cause",
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