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Hospitable, ready to admit. open-door policy, s. (See extract.) "Great Britain's position has been pronouncedly in favor of what has come to be known as the open - door policy . That is, confident of her ability to hold her own against all commercial competition, with the advantages she has already gained, she has advocated throwing open China, with its 400,000,000 purchasers, to the markets of the world."- Chicago Times - Herald, Aug. 21, 1898.