Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective With the postage having been paid in advance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the postage prepaid: as, a post-paid letter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the postage prepaid, as a letter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
paid inadvance (used especially of mail items) - adjective
paid after theservice (used especially of cellular phones)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb having the postage paid by the sender
- adjective used especially of mail; paid in advance
Etymologies
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Examples
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Although AT&T is touting its lead in postpaid smartphone subscribers, the carrier is just now taking steps to gain a better foothold in the prepaid market, an area where rivals have a head start.
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The price of it in limp cloth covers, postpaid, is ten cents.
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Long-term postpaid monthly subscriptions will be used by fewer than 40% of all mobile broadband users.
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T's so-called postpaid net subscriber growth, which fell sharply in the first quarter from a year earlier, continued to lag in the second quarter, underscoring the difficulties of the wireless industry's most lucrative source of income.
AT 2010
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We win send any of the above titles postpaid to any address.
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James Ratcliffe predicted Sprint would lose 100,000 contract subscribers, known as postpaid, and add 225,000 prepaid users.
Sprint Plunges Most in Eight Months on Wider-Than-Forecast Loss - Bloomberg 2010
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Wireless revenue declined 8 percent as the company shed a net of 545,000 wireless subscribers, including 801,000 so-called postpaid customers who sign annual contracts and tend to spend the most.
unknown title 2009
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Wireless revenue declined 8 percent as the company shed a net of 545,000 wireless subscribers, including 801,000 so-called postpaid customers who sign annual contracts and tend to spend the most.
unknown title 2009
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Wireless revenue declined 8 percent as the company shed a net of 545,000 wireless subscribers, including 801,000 so-called postpaid customers who sign annual contracts and tend to spend the most.
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Underneath that total, however, is a great deal of turmoil, as low-priced prepaid plans lure customers from much higher-priced plans, called postpaid, that commit customers to contracts.
NYT > Home Page 2009
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