mailing

noun

mail·​ing ˈmā-liŋ How to pronounce mailing (audio)
: mail sent at one time to multiple addressees by a sender (as for promotional purposes)

Examples of mailing in a Sentence

Get the check ready for mailing and take it to the post office. The charity sent out several mailings to everyone on its mailing list.
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From an initial mailing to twelve thousand seven hundred households in Deschutes County, about a hundred and twenty people responded. Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2024 The mailings included more than 25,000 to those with more than $1 million in income and over 100,000 to people with incomes between $400,000 and $1 million between tax years 2017 and 2021. Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024 The Secret Agent Kaczynski himself also made a book famous through his crimes, which included transport, mailing and use of bombs and three counts of first-degree murder. Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024 The primary evidence leading to the arrest of Everett Dutschke for both the mailing of the ricin letters and framing of Paul Kevin Curtis came from a trusty old investigative method that doesn't often yield such staggering results: a trash pull. Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for mailing 

Word History

First Known Use

1928, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of mailing was in 1928

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“Mailing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mailing. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.

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