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Definition of Mail order
1. Noun. A purchase negotiated by mail.
Definition of Mail order
1. Noun. A system of commerce in which one orders goods from a remote store which are then shipped by mail. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mail Order
Literary usage of Mail order
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Marketing by Fred Emerson Clark (1922)
"The reasons for the inception of the mail order business in this country have
been well summarized as arising from "the independence and lack of community ..."
2. Business Administration by Leon Carroll Marshall (1921)
"Mail-order selling, therefore, is partly the result of consumer demand, ...
Let us analyze this mail-order competition and discuss methods of meeting it. ..."
3. Modern Advertising by Earnest Elmo Calkins, Ralph Holden (1905)
"there are only two sizes for a mail-order advertisement. It should either be
large enough to tell the entire story or small enough to induce the reader to ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"mail order Advertising is the term applied to a form of exploitation peculiarly
American. When the newer communities of the West were insufficiently ..."
5. Financing an Enterprise by Hugh Ronald Conyngton (1921)
"CHAPTER XLVI mail order METHODS Nature of the mail order Appeal ... mail order
methods may, however, be successfully employed to raise money for the smaller ..."
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