money orders
- plural of money order.
Example Sentences
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In one hut as many as three thousand letters have been handled in one day, besides parcel-post packages, registered letters, and money-orders.
From Lest We Forget World War Stories by Bigwood, Inez
They earn more over there than they can at home; every week brings American money-orders to Custonaci and on mail days the post-office is crowded with wives, mothers and sweethearts.
From Diversions in Sicily by Jones, Henry Festing
Wherever the local inspector found that as many as five money-orders were required in a week, the practice was to make that branch of the Post Office a money-order office.
From Thrift by Smiles, Samuel
These officials pass their days in verifying money-orders, documents, roles, registers, lists, permits, custom-house receipts, payments, taxes received, taxes spent, etc.; all of which the clerks write or copy.
From Bureaucracy by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
The money-orders are drafts by one post-office upon another, for sums not exceeding �5.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.
