mailing

M3A1I1L1I1N1G2
/ˈmeɪlɪŋ/

noun

An act of sending mail.

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posting
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Meanings

mailing1

nounmailing (plural mailings)

plural mailings

  1. An act of sending mail.
    1 more example

    He has taken to flooding the mailboxes of gay organizations in recent months, urging us to do this or buy that; two recent examples of such mailings are especially telling. In one, he suggests that we join a national writers union […] The other mailing offers us the chance to pay for the privilege of sending flyers for the gay books Witomski thinks are so terrible.

    1987 February 22, Terry Helbing, “Petty Sniping At Gay Authors”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 31, page 4
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of mail

mailing2

nounmailing (plural mailings)

plural mailings

  1. obsoleteA farm.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounthe transmission of a letter

Similar
posting
Broader
transmissiontransmittaltransmitting
Also see
posting

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

See mail (“rent”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with mailing

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Cite this entry
APA

mailing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mailing

MLA

“mailing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mailing. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mailing,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mailing.

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