Definition of Open door

1. Noun. The policy of granting equal trade opportunities to all countries.

Exact synonyms: Open-door Policy
Generic synonyms: National Trading Policy, Trade Policy

2. Noun. Freedom of access. "He maintained an open door for all employees"
Generic synonyms: Door

Lexicographical Neighbors of Open Door

open circuit
open circuit method
open circulatory system
open cluster
open clusters
open comedo
open compound
open compounds
open content
open cordotomy
open cover
open day
open days
open design
open dislocation
open door (current term)
open doors
open drainage
open drop anaesthesia
open ended straight draw
open fire
open fireplace
open flap
open floor plan
open fracture
open frame
open goal
open half space
open half spaces
open head injury

Literary usage of Open door

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"Llv Age 288:698-700 Mr 11 '16 Closing the open door. G: B. Rea. No Am 203- 690-9 My' '16 Japan and ... Lit Digest 51:1470 D 25 45 China and the open door. ..."

2. The Imperial Japanese Mission, 1917: A Record of the Reception Throughout by Kikujirō Ishii, Toyokichi Iyenaga, Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke (1918)
"... The open door Viscount Ishii's rising was the signal for a splendid demonstration of sincere regard and admiration, which the envoy acknowledged by many ..."

3. Foreign Rights and Interests in China by Westel Woodbury Willoughby (1920)
"In the Russo-Japanese Convention of 1916 no reference was made to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China nor to the open door, the emphasis ..."

4. China at the Conference: A Report by Westel Woodbury Willoughby (1922)
"The open door and the Chinese Railways. The only other consideration given by the Conference to the Chinese Railways was with reference to the application ..."

5. The Washington Conference by Raymond Leslie Buell (1922)
"S ALTO THE WASHINGTON CONFERENCE I/ Although the open door Treaty is therefore of ... Japan can no longer plead that the open door policy does not prohibit ..."

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