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REPLY-PAID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reply-paid mean? 

REPLY-PAID (adjective)
  The adjective REPLY-PAID has 1 sense:

1. with cost of reply prepaid by senderplay

  Familiarity information: REPLY-PAID used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


REPLY-PAID (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

With cost of reply prepaid by sender

Context example:

reply-paid envelope

Similar:

paid (marked by the reception of pay)


 Context examples 


No woman would ever send a reply-paid telegram.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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