MAILING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mailing mean? 

• MAILING (noun)
  The noun MAILING has 2 senses:

1. mail sent by a sender at one time

2. the transmission of a letter

  Familiarity information: MAILING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAILING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mail sent by a sender at one time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

the candidate sent out three large mailings

Hypernyms ("mailing" is a kind of...):

mail; post (any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered)

Derivation:

mail (cause to be directed or transmitted to another place)

mail (send via the postal service)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The transmission of a letter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

mailing; posting

Context example:

the postmark indicates the time of mailing

Hypernyms ("mailing" is a kind of...):

transmission; transmittal; transmitting (the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted)

Derivation:

mail (cause to be directed or transmitted to another place)

mail (send via the postal service)

 Context examples 

A data type comprised of mailing and home or office addresses.

(Address Data Type, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

He read it over before mailing, and was particularly impressed by its sophomoric amateurishness and general worthlessness.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)