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mail order
1noun
- an order for goods received or shipped through the mail.
- the business of selling merchandise through the mail.
mail-order
2[ meyl-awr-der ]
adjective
- pertaining to or obtained by mail order:
a dozen mail-order rosebushes.
verb (used with object)
- to order (merchandise) by mail:
to mail-order fruitcakes for Christmas.
mail order
noun
- an order for merchandise sent by post
- a system of buying and selling merchandise through the post
- ( as modifier )
a mail-order firm
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mail order1
Origin of mail order2
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Example Sentences
Meet the psychics preying on the elderly with a mail-order moneymaking gig that netted them millions a year.
The mail-order business took off, so he closed the magazine and started a record shop.
Jason is a particular breed himself, a mail-order salesman of animals.
Johnson has had his scandals, but he is not the kind of man to go out with a Russian mail-order bride.
Next to his desk, which does not have computer on it, swims a frog he grew from a mail-order tadpole.
Bud set him down on the bunk, gave him a mail-order catalogue to look at, and went out again into the storm.
That was a good initial effort, running down the opium pill mail-order enterprise.
Not so with the Enteronol Company—it is a mail-order business and the world is its territory.
It is only necessary to refer to The Journals recent article155 on the Turnock mail-order medical fraud to emphasize this fact.
Describe the necessary routine in entering and filling orders in a mail-order house shipping all goods by express.
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