Mailing

//ˈmeɪlɪŋ// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An act of sending mail.

    "He has taken to flooding the mailboxes of gay organizations in recent months, urging us to do this or buy that; two recent examples of such mailings are especially telling. In one, he suggests that we join a national writers union […] The other mailing offers us the chance to pay for the privilege of sending flyers for the gay books Witomski thinks are so terrible."

  2. 2
    A farm. obsolete
  3. 3
    the transmission of a letter wordnet
  4. 4
    mail sent by a sender at one time wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of mail form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

All synonyms
posting

Example

More examples

"Of course, neither goods nor mailing fee returned."

Etymology

See mail (“rent”).

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