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junk mail

junk mail noun: any mail or letters that are not welcome or solicited and typically sent in bulk; especially mail of a commercial nature such as advertising circulars and form letters.

Noun

junk mail (countable and uncountable, plural junk mails)

  1. (postal) Any mail or letters that are not welcome or solicited and typically sent in bulk; especially mail of a commercial nature such as advertising circulars and form letters.
    • I don't believe it. Junk mail that talks back.1988 December 14, Stephen Wyatt, “The Greatest Show in the Galaxy Part 1”, in Doctor Who, spoken by Dorothy ("Ace") McShane (Sophie Aldred)
    • In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74

junk mail meaning in Tamil and Bengali

junk mail in Tamil

கூள மின்னஞ்சல்

junk mail in Bengali

কোনো বিতর্কিত বিজ্ঞাপনী প্রচারপত্র

Forms of junk mail

pluraljunk mails
alternative formjunkmail

Words formed from junk mail

Questions about junk mail

What does junk mail mean?
Junk mail means any mail or letters that are not welcome or solicited and typically sent in bulk; especially mail of a commercial nature such as advertising circulars and form letters.
What is junk mail in Tamil?
Junk mail in Tamil is கூள மின்னஞ்சல். See Junk mail meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is junk mail?
Junk mail is a noun.
What is the plural of junk mail?
The plural of junk mail is junk mails.

Words near junk mail in the dictionary

  1. junk in the trunk
  2. junk job
  3. junk jobs
  4. junk journal
  5. junk journals
  6. junk mail
  7. junk mailer
  8. junk mailers
  9. junk mails
  10. junk news
  11. junk orbit

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: junk mail (page history and authors); junk mail (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); junk mail (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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