mail-order

verb

To buy or sell goods to be delivered by mail.

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Meanings

verbmail-order (third-person singular simple present mail-orders, present participle mail-ordering, simple past and past participle mail-ordered)

present singular third person mail-orders · participle present mail-ordering · participle past mail-ordered · past mail-ordered

  1. To buy or sell goods to be delivered by mail.

    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.

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

mail-order. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mail-order

MLA

“mail-order.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mail-order. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mail-order,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mail-order.

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