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Welcome Wagon

Welcome Wagon proper noun: a nationwide business which contacts new homeowners after relocation, providing them with coupons and advertisements from local businesses.

Proper noun

Welcome Wagon

  1. (US) A nationwide business which contacts new homeowners after relocation, providing them with coupons and advertisements from local businesses.
    • The Welcome Wagon lady, sixty if she was a day but working at youth and vivacity (ginger hair, red lips, a sunshine-yellow dress), twinkled her eyes2004, Ira Levin with Peter Straub, The Stepford Wives, page 3
  2. (US) Any similar approach of institutionalised welcoming.
    • The students' solution was to create a Welcome Wagon program to cordially introduce new students to their class.2004, Beth Doll with Steven Zucker and Katherine Brehm, Resilient Classrooms: Creating Healthy Environments for Learning, page 53

Questions about Welcome Wagon

What does Welcome Wagon mean?
Welcome Wagon means a nationwide business which contacts new homeowners after relocation, providing them with coupons and advertisements from local businesses.
What part of speech is Welcome Wagon?
Welcome Wagon is a proper noun.

Words near Welcome Wagon in the dictionary

  1. Welcome to Countries
  2. Welcome to Country
  3. welcome to my life
  4. welcome to my world
  5. welcome to the club
  6. Welcome Wagon
  7. welcome-home-husband-however-drunk-you-be
  8. welcome-home-husband-though-never-so-drunk
  9. welcomed
  10. welcomee
  11. welcomees

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