单词 | mail-order |
释义 | mail-orderv. transitive. To order, purchase, or sell (goods) by mail. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (transitive)] > order to speak for ——a1688 order1746 mail-order1968 1968 ‘N. Blake’ Private Wound iv. 64 A brand-new suite of furniture which looked as if it had been mail-ordered out of a catalogue. 1972 Guardian 23 Feb. 11/3 Allcraft..mail-order a candle-making kit. 1986 T. Barling Smoke vi. 104 Stavros said he'd mail-order the consignment. a1992 L. Colwin More Home Cooking (1993) xvii. 85 When my daughter became a toddler.., I mail-ordered her juice from Walnut Acres, an organic farm. Derivatives mail-ˈordered adj. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > [adjective] > bought or purchased keftc1300 purchased1576 boughten1793 bought1796 paid-for1817 mail-ordered1982 1982 N.Y. Times xxi. 6/6 Prepaid mail-ordered shipments are sent daily by United Parcel Service. 1997 Select June 44/2 Marilyn Manson have discovered a new drug high caused by snorting the mail-ordered oceanic organism called Sea Monkeys. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1968 |
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