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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
mail-order .
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Examples
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And Ms. Federico does not gloss over the sobering reality of addled old age, not when Walter mail-orders sexual devices and creams and then nightly ambushes her frail mother; not when Addie, in one of her less than lucid moments, refers to a black health-care worker as "the new slave."
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A shy young man – played expertly by Ryan Gosling – falls in love with an anatomically correct doll he mail-orders from the Internet.
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Ai tinks der is wun shop in Sidinee — Wunner ifz dey do mail-orders?
You blow on my tail, okay? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Petrossian mail-orders paddlefish caviar for $50 for 1¾ ounces, compared with $381 for its best Caspian osetra.
Like a Sturgeon 2007
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And Will is kept PLENTY busy filling the regular mail-orders.
News of the Church of the Subgenius Rev. Ivan Stang 1995
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Ludmilla, in these days of mail-orders, wholesale departments, banking accounts and cheque-books.
From a Terrace in Prague Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker
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He got excited about ballgames and elections and business failures, was not above an interest in murders and divorce scandals, and he checked the news off as neatly as he checked his mail-orders.
A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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So long as he stayed by the books himself and attended to the mail-orders he couldn't possibly be found out.
A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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(There's also a great indie bookseller near my office in London, Clerkenwell Tales, which will take your inscription mail-orders; I'll stop in a couple times a week to sign them for the duration).
Boing Boing 2009
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Seasonal Paper Catalogs since direct, mail-orders are their primary distribution method.
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