open door

1. 1.

   the policy of granting equal trade opportunities to all countries

   Synonymsopen-door policy

   Broadertrade policy
2. 2.

   freedom of access

   “he maintained an open door for all employees”

   Broaderdoor

Questions about open door

What does open door mean?

open door means "the policy of granting equal trade opportunities to all countries". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for open door?

Close synonyms include open-door policy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is open door a common word?

open door is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.