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dead letter office

dead letter office noun: the postal facility that deals with mail that cannot be delivered.

Noun

dead letter office (plural dead letter offices)

  1. The postal facility that deals with mail that cannot be delivered.
    • There are 4201 letters lying in the Dead Letter Office, London, which contain property to the amount of $200,000.1847, editorial staff, “(untitled: 4201 letters)”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 72
  2. (figuratively) A channel of communications for which the recipient neither acknowledges nor acts upon any messages sent.
    • The whole world is a Dead Letter Office. No one's listening to us. Our words vanish in the wind.2009, Mike Hockney, The Last Bling King, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 101
    • The agriculture department was merely a dead letter office until the present Minister gave it life and usefulness1890 April 19, “Farm Topics”, in The Leader: A Weekly Journal of News, Politics, Agriculture, Literature, Science and Sport, Melbourne, Victoria, page 10

dead letter office meaning in Kannada

dead letter office in Kannada

ವಿಳಾಸ ಸಿಕ್ಕದ ಪತ್ರಗಳ ಕಚೇರಿ

Forms of dead letter office

pluraldead letter offices

Questions about dead letter office

What does dead letter office mean?
Dead letter office means the postal facility that deals with mail that cannot be delivered.
What is dead letter office in Kannada?
Dead letter office in Kannada is ವಿಳಾಸ ಸಿಕ್ಕದ ಪತ್ರಗಳ ಕಚೇರಿ. See Dead letter office meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is dead letter office?
Dead letter office is a noun.
What is the plural of dead letter office?
The plural of dead letter office is dead letter offices.

Words near dead letter office in the dictionary

  1. dead leaves
  2. dead leg
  3. dead legs
  4. dead letter
  5. dead letter box
  6. dead letter office
  7. dead letter offices
  8. dead letters
  9. dead level
  10. dead levels
  11. dead line

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