mailing

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmeɪlɪŋ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ

Etymology 1

Noun

mailing (plural mailings)

  1. An act of sending mail.
    • 1987 February 22, Terry Helbing, “Petty Sniping At Gay Authors”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 31, page 4:
      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.
Derived terms

Verb

mailing

  1. present participle and gerund of mail

Etymology 2

See mail (rent).

Noun

mailing (plural mailings)

  1. (obsolete) A farm.

French

Etymology

From English mailing list.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛ.liŋ/ ~ /me.liŋ/

Noun

mailing m (plural mailings)

  1. mailing list

Spanish

Noun

mailing m (plural mailings)

  1. mailing list