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sorting offices

sorting offices is the plural of sorting office.

Meaning of sorting office

Noun

sorting office (plural sorting offices)

  1. A building in which mail is collected together, then sorted prior to delivery.
    • The town has a long association with T.P.O. [travelling post office] working, the stock and operation of which has changed little over the years, but in 1961 new postal vans were introduced on the "York Mail" and a conveyor belt from platform 7 to the sorting office is to be installed to speed...1963 January, Jeffrey P. Burke, “Railway crossroads of the north-west: Shrewsbury”, in Modern Railways, page 51

Questions about sorting offices

What is sorting offices the plural of?
Sorting offices is the plural of sorting office.

Words near sorting offices in the dictionary

  1. sortilegy
  2. sortilin
  3. sortilins
  4. sorting
  5. sorting office
  6. sorting offices
  7. sorting oneself out
  8. sorting out
  9. sorting table
  10. sorting tables
  11. sorting the wheat from the chaff

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