cold email

noun

A sales email, made without a referral or without preparing the recipient of the email.

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Meanings

nouncold email (plural cold emails)

plural cold emails · alternative cold-email

  1. A sales email, made without a referral or without preparing the recipient of the email.
verbcold email (third-person singular simple present cold emails, present participle cold emailing, simple past and past participle cold emailed)

present singular third person cold emails · participle present cold emailing · participle past cold emailed · past cold emailed · alternative cold-email

  1. transitiveTo email someone without preparation or referral.

Origin

By analogy with cold call.

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APA

cold email. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cold%20email

MLA

“cold email.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cold%20email. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cold email,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cold%20email.

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