mail order meaning

• Noun: mail order  meyl 'ordu(r)
  1. A purchase negotiated by mail

  Derived forms: mail orders

  Type of: order, purchase order

  Encyclopedia: Mail order

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  [American slang]
  n. phr. A purchase made by mail. If you don't have a chance to go to a store, you can sometimes make a purchase by mail order.
  
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  [Business]
  noun [U] (abbr MO)

  a system of buying and selling goods through the mail:

  We sell clothing by mail order.

  a mail-order business/company/retailer

  a mail-order catalogue

  Most of the new office furniture was bought by mail order.

  mail-order verb [+ obj]:

  These items can only be mail-ordered.

• 
  [Medicine]
  The functions and activities carried out by the U.S. Postal Service,foreign postal services,and private postal services such as Federal Express.

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• Our mail orders are now running at $ 1, 200 a week
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• Our products are available by mail order
• I got bitten in a mail order swindle
• An unique mail order service for personalized chinese artworks on demand
• Catalog and mail order retail
• Read and mail order the english version books of beijing culture and arts
• Her mother has said she believed the skulls were bought from a mail order catalog

• "mail order" meaning in Chinese: 函购，邮购 (a mail-order house 邮售商行)。
• "mail order" meaning in Japanese: mail order通販つうはんメイルオーダー通信販売つうしんはんばいメールオーダー
• "mail order" meaning in Russian: 1) почтовый заказ; заказ товаров по почте2) _ам. почтовый ...
• "mail order" meaning in French: commande par correspondance