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Mailbox   Listen
noun
mailbox  n.  
1.
A public box for deposit of mail, where it is later picked up by the postal authority for delivery.
Synonyms: postbox, letter box.
2.
A private box to recieve delivery of mail. The term is used both for boxes receiving mail delivered by the public postal authority, or by a private services, such as for mail to employees in large corporations.
Synonyms: letter box.
3.
(Computers) A location within a computer storage device where electronic mail is held until it is retrieved by the addressee. Creation and use of an electronic mailbox requires special software as well as a data storage device.





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"Mailbox" Quotes from Famous Books



... road now lay clear before Thyrsis, and accordingly he set grimly to work. He had his document printed upon a long slip of paper, and got several packages for Corydon to address. And one evening they took them out and dropped them into the mailbox. "And now we'll see!" ...
— Love's Pilgrimage • Upton Sinclair
... looked out the window. The bulldozers had made the ground rectangular, level and brown, turning it into a gigantic half-cent stamp. He remembered the mail and raised the window and reached down into the mailbox. It was on this side of the house, because only this side was ...
— The Last Place on Earth • James Judson Harmon


Words linked to "Mailbox" :   maildrop, letter box, postbox, pillar box


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