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Synonyms for mail order
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : meyl-awr-der |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmeɪlˌɔr dər |
Définition of mail order
Origin :- 1875, from mail (n.1) + order. Before television and the Internet, the bane of retailers and shop-owners.
- The origin, foundation and principle of mail order trading is universally recognized as wrong. It was conceived in iniquity and brought forth in despair as the world's greatest destructive medium. Mail Order Trading was born in the brain of knaves and thieves who fired their building for insurance profits, then sold the salvaged and damaged stock to the unsuspecting sons of man in distant territory. [Thomas J. Sullivan, "Merchants and Manufacturers on Trial," Chicago, 1914]
- noun shopping by mail
- It had me worried some, until I tumbles that the Glory Be was a mail order snap.
- Extract from : « Torchy » by Sewell Ford
- Learned when I served my time and worked the mail order line for Kellett's.
- Extract from : « Ulysses » by James Joyce
- Opening this, he found it to be some part of a mail order office equipment.
- Extract from : « Bound to Succeed » by Allen Chapman
- Haven Bros. were to do all the printing for the mail order business.
- Extract from : « Bound to Succeed » by Allen Chapman
- Frank went into details with Darry as to the mail order business.
- Extract from : « Bound to Succeed » by Allen Chapman
- The long and short of it is, I am going into the mail order business.
- Extract from : « Bound to Succeed » by Allen Chapman
- Everything in the mail order business was moving along smoothly.
- Extract from : « Bound to Succeed » by Allen Chapman
- The trolley and the mail order houses have made it unnecessary.
- Extract from : « The Challenge of the Country » by George Walter Fiske
- Would this plan be advisable for a mail order house to adopt?
- Extract from : « Business English » by Rose Buhlig
- The mail order house ruins the trade of the country merchant.
- Extract from : « Business English » by Rose Buhlig
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