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carries the mail

carries the mail is the third-person singular simple present indicative of carry the mail.

Meaning of carry the mail

Verb

carry the mail (third-person singular simple present carries the mail, present participle carrying the mail, simple past and past participle carried the mail)

  1. (US, idiomatic) To work diligently; to serve as the principal performer of a demanding task or set of tasks.
    • "My objective was to carry the mail for the President, working with the Congress, forging that new bill."1986 January 8, Keith Schneider, “Agriculture Chief to Quit: Reagan Hails Block Tenure”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Mar 2014

Questions about carries the mail

What is carries the mail the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Carries the mail is the third-person singular simple present indicative of carry the mail.

Words near carries the mail in the dictionary

  1. carries owls to Athens
  2. carries someone's water
  3. carries the ball
  4. carries the can
  5. carries the day
  6. carries the mail
  7. carries the mantle
  8. carries the message to Garcia
  9. carries the torch
  10. carries the world before one
  11. carries through

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