单词 | postage due stamp |
释义 | postage due stamp in British Englishnoun a stamp affixed by a Post Office to a letter, parcel, etc, indicating that insufficient or no postage has been prepaid and showing the amount to be paid by the addressee on delivery postage due stamp in American Englishnoun a stamp that is affixed to mail at a post office when prepayment of postage is insufficient, to indicate the amountthat must be collected from the addressee Word origin [1890–95, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bootstrap, cholesterol, phoneme, pogey, takedownExamples of 'postage due stamp' in a sentence |
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