"mailing" meaning in All languages combined

See mailing on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈmeɪlɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-mailing.wav [US] Forms: mailings [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun}} mailing (plural mailings)
  1. An act of sending mail. Derived forms: mailing shot
    Sense id: en-mailing-en-noun-UW76DIhP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 68 21 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 70 21 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 77 16 7
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈmeɪlɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-mailing.wav [US] Forms: mailings [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ Etymology: See mail (“rent”). Head templates: {{en-noun}} mailing (plural mailings)
  1. (obsolete) A farm. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-mailing-en-noun-ZRu1rBgw
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈmeɪlɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-mailing.wav [US]
Rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} mailing
  1. present participle and gerund of mail Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: mail
    Sense id: en-mailing-en-verb-CZIOAFM1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [French]

IPA: /mɛ.liŋ/, /me.liŋ/ Forms: mailings [plural]
Etymology: Pseudo-anglicism, derived from mailing list. Etymology templates: {{pseudo-loan|fr|en|mailing list}} Pseudo-anglicism, derived from mailing list Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} mailing m (plural mailings)
  1. mailing list Tags: masculine

Noun [Spanish]

Forms: mailings [plural]
Etymology: Pseudo-anglicism, derived from mailing list. Etymology templates: {{pseudo-loan|es|en|mailing list}} Pseudo-anglicism, derived from mailing list Head templates: {{es-noun|m}} mailing m (plural mailings)
  1. mailing list Tags: masculine

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1987 February 22, Terry Helbing, “Petty Sniping At Gay Authors”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 31, page 4:",
          "text": "He has taken to flooding the mailboxes of gay organizations in recent months, urging us to do this or buy that; two recent examples of such mailings are especially telling. In one, he suggests that we join a national writers union […] The other mailing offers us the chance to pay for the privilege of sending flyers for the gay books Witomski thinks are so terrible.",
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        }
      ],
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      ],
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