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business envelope

American  

noun

  1. a postal envelope for standard-size business letters 8½ × 11 inches (20 × 28 centimeters), measuring about 4½ × 9 inches (11 × 23 centimeters).


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Editors recently opened an "official business" envelope from the Navy Department, pulled out two pages of poetry under the title Pacifism, by one Archibald Hopkins.*

From Time Magazine Archive

She crossed the room again to straighten the stack of books on his lamp table, and was doing so when a pamphlet the size of a business envelope caught her eye.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

With a hyphenated surname, she would no longer fit into the window of a business envelope.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

It was an ordinary missive, in business envelope, addressed to Lieutenant Sanford Ray, Fort Minneconjou, and it had been opened.

From A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by King, Charles

It is made the size of the ordinary business envelope, for it is also used in direct circularization of lists and as an enclosure with bills, statements, and sometimes with general correspondence.

From The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing by Hitchcock, Frederick H.

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