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dead letter offices

dead letter offices is the plural of dead letter office.

Meaning of dead letter office

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

Questions about dead letter offices

What is dead letter offices the plural of?
Dead letter offices is the plural of dead letter office.

Words near dead letter offices in the dictionary

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

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