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单词 airmail
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Definition of airmail in English:

airmail

noun ˈɛːmeɪlˈɛrˌmeɪl
mass noun
  • A system of transporting mail by aircraft, typically overseas.

    instructions were sent by airmail
    as modifier an airmail letter
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The charge for international postal packages sent by land or by airmail is raised by an average of 30 per cent.
    • Delivery takes 3-4 weeks by airmail, or 5-7 weeks by boat; there is a no-time-limit, 100% money-back guarantee.
    • International orders will be sent using Expresspost (to participating countries) or by registered airmail.
    • The following year, on 25 September, Earle Ovington flew the first Post Office sanctioned airmail as part of an aerial meet at Garden City, New York.
    • Under legal system, the remitter can send a bank draft via airmail to his/her relatives.
    • They're sending our things via airmail tomorrow.
    • It was one of the few that sold letter pads of onionskin paper, lightweight and therefore used primarily for airmail so one could save on postage.
    • There is an unrestricted ‘full letter rate’, for which you can send anything at all, but there are two other special airmail postal rates (which both cost around half as much).
    • The act shifted responsibility for overseeing airmail from the U.S. Army to the Post Office Department after several pilots were killed in accidents due to inexperience and faulty equipment.
    • Then came the internet, credit cards and cheap international airmail.
    • In keeping with the idea that the students were to produce a book, 1 told them that their third drafts would be sent by airmail to an environmental historian who did not know them.
    • A subscription costs $116.00 a year and $12.00 extra for airmail to the U.S.
    • I finished the order - now paranoid that the face of the parcel doesn't meet the standards required for airmail.
    • Sussmann has passed on my documents by airmail to Georg.
    • The leaves arrived the next week via airmail in a bubble-wrap envelope marked at customs by the U.S. Postal Service as ‘incense.’
    • Their March edition, I've just received it by airmail, it has some excellent and thought-provoking and theologically astute articles about the issue.
    • I know the price includes postage, but normal airmail to and from the US usually takes anywhere between one and three weeks.
    • Price: $8 USD for overseas orders, 20 shekels in Israel, including airmail postage.
    • On 20 April, TWA inaugurated America's first 24-hour coast-to-coast airmail and express service.
    • It's true that you do have to be patient with the orders - even if you pay for expedited delivery or airmail, it can still sometimes take months to receive an order, so you must order far in advance of when you need the product.
    Synonyms
    mail, the postal service, the postal system
verb ˈɛːmeɪlˈɛrˌmeɪl
[with object]
  • Send (mail) by aircraft.

    I have a sheaf of letters to airmail
    Example sentencesExamples
    • So what they eventually decided they had to do was to make a xerox copy of their third printout and airmail it to Australia.
    • She is adamant she will not be airmailing it to her son-in-law, who emigrated to Australia with his wife and their two children in 1979.
    • I subscribe to a monthly magazine from England (paying extra to have it airmailed so it will arrive in Thailand within 4-5 days).
    • Seeds are better to take - they last longer, cuttings you've got to keep alive, get them out to civilisation and airmail them home.
    • Mine are carefully folded into envelopes and airmailed to Berlin.
    Synonyms
    dispatch, post, mail, put in the mail, put in the post, address, get off, convey, consign, direct, forward, redirect, send on, remit
 
 

Definition of airmail in US English:

airmail

nounˈerˌmālˈɛrˌmeɪl
  • A system of transporting mail by aircraft, typically overseas.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Delivery takes 3-4 weeks by airmail, or 5-7 weeks by boat; there is a no-time-limit, 100% money-back guarantee.
    • Their March edition, I've just received it by airmail, it has some excellent and thought-provoking and theologically astute articles about the issue.
    • The following year, on 25 September, Earle Ovington flew the first Post Office sanctioned airmail as part of an aerial meet at Garden City, New York.
    • On 20 April, TWA inaugurated America's first 24-hour coast-to-coast airmail and express service.
    • There is an unrestricted ‘full letter rate’, for which you can send anything at all, but there are two other special airmail postal rates (which both cost around half as much).
    • Price: $8 USD for overseas orders, 20 shekels in Israel, including airmail postage.
    • International orders will be sent using Expresspost (to participating countries) or by registered airmail.
    • They're sending our things via airmail tomorrow.
    • I know the price includes postage, but normal airmail to and from the US usually takes anywhere between one and three weeks.
    • The charge for international postal packages sent by land or by airmail is raised by an average of 30 per cent.
    • Sussmann has passed on my documents by airmail to Georg.
    • In keeping with the idea that the students were to produce a book, 1 told them that their third drafts would be sent by airmail to an environmental historian who did not know them.
    • A subscription costs $116.00 a year and $12.00 extra for airmail to the U.S.
    • The act shifted responsibility for overseeing airmail from the U.S. Army to the Post Office Department after several pilots were killed in accidents due to inexperience and faulty equipment.
    • Under legal system, the remitter can send a bank draft via airmail to his/her relatives.
    • Then came the internet, credit cards and cheap international airmail.
    • It was one of the few that sold letter pads of onionskin paper, lightweight and therefore used primarily for airmail so one could save on postage.
    • It's true that you do have to be patient with the orders - even if you pay for expedited delivery or airmail, it can still sometimes take months to receive an order, so you must order far in advance of when you need the product.
    • I finished the order - now paranoid that the face of the parcel doesn't meet the standards required for airmail.
    • The leaves arrived the next week via airmail in a bubble-wrap envelope marked at customs by the U.S. Postal Service as ‘incense.’
    Synonyms
    mail, the postal service, the postal system
verbˈerˌmālˈɛrˌmeɪl
[with object]
  • Send (mail) by aircraft.

    a recent letter that I airmailed to Miss Sifton
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She is adamant she will not be airmailing it to her son-in-law, who emigrated to Australia with his wife and their two children in 1979.
    • I subscribe to a monthly magazine from England (paying extra to have it airmailed so it will arrive in Thailand within 4-5 days).
    • So what they eventually decided they had to do was to make a xerox copy of their third printout and airmail it to Australia.
    • Mine are carefully folded into envelopes and airmailed to Berlin.
    • Seeds are better to take - they last longer, cuttings you've got to keep alive, get them out to civilisation and airmail them home.
    Synonyms
    dispatch, post, mail, put in the mail, put in the post, address, get off, convey, consign, direct, forward, redirect, send on, remit
 
 
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