front door

noun

1. the main entrance to a house or other building, usually facing a street.

2. Informal.,  anything offering the best, most direct, or most straightforward approach to a place, situation, objective, etc.

front door

noun

1. the main entrance to a house

2. an open legitimate means of obtaining a job, position, etc

   to get in by the front door

Word History and Origins

Origin of front door¹

First recorded in 1740–50

Example Sentences

By 2028, the department would have overhauled the "outdated" NHS app and "parents will be able to manage their children's healthcare through My Children, acting as a front door to the health service", they added.

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Findlay recalled the incident in December 2015, when he opened the front door of his Glasgow home to Burns two days before Christmas.

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That part is clear as soon as Ron exits his front door each morning.

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During the war, the number of dissidents murdered by Hamas’s Arrow Unit enforcers has increased sharply, their bodies dumped in the street or delivered to the front door of their families.

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A reputed member of the Locas, Wertz allegedly impersonated an FBI agent in an attempted home invasion robbery in February, hammering on the front door while holding a gun.

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