covering letter

1. 1.

   a letter sent along with other documents to provide additional information

   Synonymscover letter

   Broaderletter

Questions about covering letter

What does covering letter mean?

covering letter means "a letter sent along with other documents to provide additional information".

What is another word for covering letter?

Close synonyms include cover letter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is covering letter a common word?

covering letter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.