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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
mailing en · NOUN · etymology 1
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An act of sending mail.
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.
1987 February 22, Terry Helbing, “Petty Sniping At Gay Authors”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 31, page 4:
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mailing shot
mailing en · VERB · etymology 1
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of mail
mailing en · NOUN · etymology 2
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Etymology
See mail (“rent”).
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(obsolete) A farm.
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