postal order

American  

noun

Chiefly British.

1. money order.

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postal order British  

noun

1. a written order for the payment of a sum of money, to a named payee, obtainable and payable at a post office

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Etymology

Origin of postal order

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

The postal order would mean I had no bus fare, that I would have to walk to and from school for a week, but I didn’t care.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2020

Did Ronnie, a 14-year-old cadet, steal a postal order for five shillings, forge a signature and deserve expulsion from naval college?

From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2013

In 1908 a Naval College cadet, 13, was dismissed on the charge of stealing a five-shilling postal order.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then she mails them off with a postal order for a few shillings to cover her previous week's bet.

From Time Magazine Archive

The postal order was for the shillings alone—not for the beef or the apron.

From Eliza by Pain, Barry