doorstep
/ˈdɔrˌstɛp/
verb
- To wait outside someone's home to speak with them, especially a journalist or reporter seeking an interview.
- The journalist was criticized for doorstepping the grieving family.
- They tried to doorstep the celebrity, but security stopped them.
- Reporters doorstepped the politician as he left his house.
noun
- A step or small platform just outside a door, leading into a building.
- The milkman left the bottles on the doorstep every morning.
- A package was waiting on the doorstep when they got home.
- She sat on the doorstep to tie her shoes before leaving.
- Used figuratively to mean a place very close to someone's home or immediate vicinity.
- Opportunity was literally on her doorstep, but she was too afraid to take it.
- War came to their doorstep, and they had to flee.
- The new park is right on our doorstep, so we go there often.