night letter

1. 1.

   a cheaper form of telegram sent for delivery the next day

   Broadertelegram

Questions about night letter

What does night letter mean?

night letter means "a cheaper form of telegram sent for delivery the next day".

Is night letter a common word?

night 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.