mail-order

See also: mailorder and mail order

English

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.
   • 1984 December 29, Maida Tilchen, “Paise For Local Distributors”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 4:

     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.

See also

• mailorder
• mail order

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