mail order

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   a purchase negotiated by mail

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Questions about mail order

What does mail order mean?

mail order means "a purchase negotiated by mail".

Is mail order a common word?

mail order 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.