mailing
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmeɪlɪŋ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Etymology 1
Noun
mailing (plural mailings)
- 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
- present participle and gerund of mail
Etymology 2
See mail (“rent”).
Noun
mailing (plural mailings)
- (obsolete) A farm.
French
Etymology
From English mailing list.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛ.liŋ/ ~ /me.liŋ/
Noun
mailing m (plural mailings)
Spanish
Noun
mailing m (plural mailings)