postal order

1. 1.

   a written order for the payment of a sum to a named individual; obtainable and payable at a post office

   Synonymsmoney order

   Broaderdraft

Questions about postal order

What does postal order mean?

postal order means "a written order for the payment of a sum to a named individual; obtainable and payable at a post office".

What is another word for postal order?

Close synonyms include money order. 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 postal order a common word?

postal 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.