mailer

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UK/ˈmeɪlə/US/ˈmeɪlɚ/

noun

One who sends mail.

“The cassette came in a brown paper mailer.”

Meanings

mailer1

nounmailer (plural mailers)

plural mailers

  1. One who sends mail.

    Large and frequent mailers may send material on a monthly basis to their house lists, test acquisitions several times a year to drum up new donors, and perhaps do a few special appeals on top of that.

    2009, Robert Bly, 88 Money-Making Writing Jobs, page 133
  2. A computer program that sends electronic mail.
  3. A packet or container designed for postal use.

    The cassette came in a brown paper mailer.

  4. A mailshot; advertising sent by mail.

    Do not delete this mailer as information given within may not be repeated in subsequent mailers.

    2025 March 4, “Mailer III”, in ASCE, page 1
    2 more examples

    Lasky Co., Newark (N. J.) printer, has been using a direct-mail campaign slanted toward this problem. Latest mailer, an oversized post card, has on the address side a colorful drawing of a bird perched on top of a sign post.

    1957, Printers' Ink, volume 260, page 43

    Do they recall your latest mailer? Did you ever sell an armoire through ads on hard-rock radio? Find out with low-cost "intercept" surveys of customers as they leave the store.

    1982, NHFA's CompetitivEdge, volume 56, page 71

Mailer2

proper noun

Origin

mailer · noun

  1. Proto-Indo-European*molko-der.?
  2. Proto-Germanic*malhō
  3. Frankish*malha
  4. Medieval Latinmala
  5. Anglo-Normanmale
  6. Old Frenchmale
  7. Middle Englishmale
  8. Englishmail
  9. Englishmailer

From mail + -er.

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Mailer · proper noun

  1. Old Frenchesmal
  2. EnglishMailer

* As an English surname for an enameler, via Middle English from Old French esmal. Compare Ambler. * As a Welsh surname, variant of Meylor, from the personal name Meilyr, of Brythonic origin, corresponding to mael (“prince”) + rhi (“king”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

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Sounds the same

mela (non-rhotic pronunciations)

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APA

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MLA

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