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mail-order

mail-order verb: to buy or sell goods to be delivered by mail.

Verb

mail-order (third-person singular simple present mail-orders, present participle mail-ordering, simple past and past participle mail-ordered)

  1. To buy or sell goods to be delivered by mail.
    • If you want to buy one of the albums reviewed in my article, or any women's music recording, it's not necessary to mail order them unless you can't get to a store. Thanks to Merle and other local distributors around the country, many stores carry women's music.1984 December 29, Maida Tilchen, “Paise For Local Distributors”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 4

Forms of mail-order

third-person singular presentmail-orders
present participlemail-ordering
past participlemail-ordered
pastmail-ordered

Phrases with mail-order

Questions about mail-order

What does mail-order mean?
Mail-order means to buy or sell goods to be delivered by mail.
What part of speech is mail-order?
Mail-order is a verb.
What is the past tense of mail-order?
The past tense of mail-order is mail-ordered.

Words near mail-order in the dictionary

  1. mail-lady
  2. mail-merge
  3. mail-merged
  4. mail-merges
  5. mail-merging
  6. mail-order
  7. mail-order bride
  8. mail-order brides
  9. mail-order cowboy
  10. mail-order cowboys
  11. mail-ordered

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