Usually means: Purchasing goods through postal service.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word mail order:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. mail order: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mail-order, mail order: Merriam-Webster
  3. mail order: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mail order: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mail-order, mail-order, mail order: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mail order: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mail-Order, Mail-order, mail-order: Wordnik
  8. mail order: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mail-order, mail order: Wiktionary
  10. mail order: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mail order: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. mail-order, mail order: Dictionary.com
  13. Mail-order, Mail order: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. mail order: Rhymezone
  15. mail-order, mail order: FreeDictionary.org
  16. mail order: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. mail-order, mail order: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mail-order, mail order: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mail order)

▸ noun:  A system of commerce in which one orders goods from a remote store which are then shipped by mail.

Similar:
mail, home shopping, telecommerce, mailer, mailfile, home delivery, teleshopping, vote-by-mail, mail cover, e-auction, more...

Opposite:
in-store purchase, in-person shopping

Phrases:
mail order buying, mail order bride, mail order house, mail order catalog, mail order catalogues, more...

Adjectives:
frank, post-free, mailorder, postal, registered, paquebot, flat, door-to-door, bc, cod, signal

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Similar:
mail, home shopping, telecommerce, mailer, mailfile, home delivery, teleshopping, vote-by-mail, mail cover, e-auction, more...

Opposite:
in-store purchase, in-person shopping

Phrases:
mail order buying, mail order bride, mail order house, mail order catalog, mail order catalogues, Mail Order Monsters, more...

Adjectives:
frank, post-free, mailorder, postal, registered, paquebot, flat, door-to-door, bc, cod, signal



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