"letter-writer" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "letter-writers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "letter-writer (plural letter-writers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "writer"
        }
      ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 46:",
          "text": "The Indian letter-writers, awaiting clients, fresh paper and carbons rolled into their machines, greeted Victor Crabbe with smiles and waved hands.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990 January 12, “Answering Back”, in The Boston Phoenix, published 13 January 1995, page 8:",
          "text": "The people behind this offensive charge are revolutionaries wishing that once again America would become a nation of letter-writers.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 June 20, Susan and Robert Haynes-Borson, “Sun’s up”, in Santa Fe New Mexican, 174th year, number 171, page A-10:",
          "text": "We add to the chorus of letter-writers praising the current Morning Sun play at The New Mexico Actors Lab, here in Santa Fe.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of letter writer."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "letter writer",
          "letter writer#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "letter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "letter-writer"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "letter-writers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "letter-writer (plural letter-writers)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "writer"
        }
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        "English countable nouns",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 46:",
          "text": "The Indian letter-writers, awaiting clients, fresh paper and carbons rolled into their machines, greeted Victor Crabbe with smiles and waved hands.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990 January 12, “Answering Back”, in The Boston Phoenix, published 13 January 1995, page 8:",
          "text": "The people behind this offensive charge are revolutionaries wishing that once again America would become a nation of letter-writers.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 June 20, Susan and Robert Haynes-Borson, “Sun’s up”, in Santa Fe New Mexican, 174th year, number 171, page A-10:",
          "text": "We add to the chorus of letter-writers praising the current Morning Sun play at The New Mexico Actors Lab, here in Santa Fe.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of letter writer."
      ],
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        [
          "letter writer",
          "letter writer#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative",
        "letter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "letter-writer"
}