Listserv
the brand name for one of the most common internet list servers.
Listserv
American
[list-surv]
/ ˈlɪstˌsɜrv /
Trademark.
noun
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any similar software program.
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an email discussion group; an online mailing list.
listserv
British
/ ˈlɪstˌsɜːv /
noun
Etymology
Origin of Listserv
First recorded in 1985–90 Listserv ( for def. 1 )
Example Sentences
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Array Crew began as a big list that became a Listserv, that ended up growing into a database.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
But AMC discarded the idea after protests from neighborhood residents, some of whom vented their anguish on Cleveland Park’s Listserv on Friday and vowed to reopen the theater.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2020
In Hyattsville, she said, book-club conversations included philosophy and theology, and continued afterward, on the Listserv.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 24, 2017
I’m sure there’s been a story about me on a Listserv.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2013
Send mail to [email protected] with a body of subscribe INFO-L Your Full Name Listservs for more information on using the Listserv system.
From Zen and the Art of the Internet by Brendan P. Kehoe
Reges then wrote to an Allen School listserv saying he would continue putting his parody land acknowledgment in syllabi.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2024
Then, on the evening of 27 February, while McCann was still in the tiny hospital in Corowa, Thorburn read a message posted a day earlier on Ozbug, a listserv of Australian infectious disease physicians.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 21, 2023
Dr. Goodman-Strauss had raised this subtlety on a tiling listserv: “Is there one hat or two?”
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
A few days ago, a woman sent an email to a listserv I’m on, asking if anyone had navigated meeting their child’s “dibling.”
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2023
Listservs for further instructions on using a listserv.
From Zen and the Art of the Internet by Brendan P. Kehoe
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