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nounan order for goods received or shipped through the mail. the business of selling merchandise through the mail. Origin of mail orderAn Americanism dating back to 1865–70 Words nearby mail orderMaillart, Maillol, maillot, mailman, mail merging, mail order, mail-order bride, mail-order house, mail-out, mailroom, mailsack Definition for mail order (2 of 2)[ meyl-awr-der ] / ˈmeɪlˌɔr dər /
adjectivepertaining 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. Origin of mail-orderFirst recorded in 1865–70 Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for mail orderMeet the psychics preying on the elderly with a mail-order moneymaking gig that netted them millions a year. The Multimillion ‘Clairvoyance by Mail’ Scam|Jacob Siegel|November 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST The mail-order business took off, so he closed the magazine and started a record shop. Can Richard Branson Bounce Back From His Space Disaster?|Tom Sykes|November 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST Jason is a particular breed himself, a mail-order salesman of animals. The Weird Underground World of Urban Animal Husbandry|Dale Eisinger|May 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST Johnson has had his scandals, but he is not the kind of man to go out with a Russian mail-order bride. Boris Johnson Is Right: Some Women Go to College to Find a Husband|Janine di Giovanni|July 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Next to his desk, which does not have computer on it, swims a frog he grew from a mail-order tadpole. Inside an Oklahoma Abortion Clinic|Allison Yarrow|January 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST We found the company in Chicago and later the mail-order slip that had been sent by Oswald to Chicago to get the gun. Warren Commission (5 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy Buyers of fancy stock prefer to deal directly with producers, and the greater part of the business is mail-order business. Our Domestic Birds|John H. Robinson It was for all the world like the pictures one saw in mail-order catalogues, he thought with a smile. The Trail of Conflict|Emilie Baker Loring The mail-order trade grew up side by side with the store trade. How Department Stores Are Carried On|W. B. Phillips For some years it was operated in a conservative way by a man who had had years of experience in the mail-order business. Analyzing Character|Katherine M. H. Blackford and Arthur Newcomb
British Dictionary definitions for mail order
nounan 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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