Welcome Wagon
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an organization sponsoring a service in which newcomers in an area are given information about the community, gifts, and sample products of local merchants.
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a vehicle dispensing such material.
Example Sentences
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The Welcome Wagon rolled on to goaltender Joey Daccord, but he’d already hit the ice for practice.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 7, 2023
Chinese companies start a local chamber of commerce; Diego Pellicer gets a few minutes of buzz on French TV; Bartell Drugs rolls out the Welcome Wagon to introduce local products to area newcomers.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 11, 2016
Ms. Aiuto, who plays the glockenspiel in the Welcome Wagon, a band she formed with her husband, the Rev. Thomas Vito Aiuto, said Greenpoint was community-oriented, if a little short of green space.
From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2010
If Terry Southern’s novel “The Magic Christian” were produced by the folks at the Welcome Wagon, the result might be something like “Amélie.”
From Salon • Nov. 2, 2001
He said it wasn’t what you’d call Welcome Wagon material.
From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant
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