mailer
a container, as a mailing tube or protective envelope, for mailing papers, books, merchandise, etc.
an advertising brochure, form letter, or the like, sent out in the mail.
Archaic. a mailboat.
Origin of mailer
1Other definitions for Mailer (2 of 2)
Norman, 1923–2007, U.S. writer.
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How to use mailer in a sentence
The mailers deemed repealing the ban on automatic assault weapons “dangerous,” “crazy,” and “radical.”
All over the country that year, Republican mailers and robocalls warned of the dread specter of same-sex families.
No longer are women in the developing world merely photographs on the mailers of big international aid organizations.
The NC Republican Party has also circulated fear-mongering mailers playing to Godlessness and gays.
It occasionally happens that black-mailers will systematically weave a web whereby they may entangle a wealthy person.
Our mailers require eighteen to nineteen hours to mail our Weekly, which makes from thirty to thirty-two cart loads.
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British Dictionary definitions for mailer (1 of 2)
/ (ˈmeɪlə) /
a person who addresses or mails letters, etc
US and Canadian a machine used for stamping and addressing mail
US and Canadian a container for mailing things
British Dictionary definitions for Mailer (2 of 2)
/ (ˈmeɪlə) /
Norman. 1923–2007, US author. His works, which are frequently critical of modern American society, include the war novel The Naked and the Dead (1948), An American Dream (1965), his account of the 1967 peace march on Washington The Armies of the Night (1968), The Executioner's Song (1979), and Barbary Shore (1998)
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