Definition of "doorplate" [doorplate]

• A plaque mounted on a door bearing information about the occupant or a room or building. (noun)

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• "From what he could read, it repeated many of the same warnings found on the doorplate, only in more strident and emphatic tones."
• "The boiler room was at the back of the building, down a dark hallway and behind a fire door with a one-way lock: no handle, no doorplate."
• "It hadn't simply fallen off, either; he'd wrenched it from the doorplate."