"mail-order" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mail-orders",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mail-ordering",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mail-ordered",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mail-ordered",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "mail-order (third-person singular simple present mail-orders, present participle mail-ordering, simple past and past participle mail-ordered)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984 December 29, Maida Tilchen, “Paise For Local Distributors”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 4:",
          "text": "If you want to buy one of the albums reviewed in my article, or any women's music recording, it's not necessary to mail order them unless you can't get to a store. Thanks to Merle and other local distributors around the country, many stores carry women's music.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To buy or sell goods to be delivered by mail."
      ],
      "id": "en-mail-order-en-verb-CuP0hb0l",
      "links": [
        [
          "buy",
          "buy"
        ],
        [
          "sell",
          "sell"
        ],
        [
          "delivered",
          "delivered"
        ],
        [
          "mail",
          "mail"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "mailorder"
        },
        {
          "word": "mail order"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mail-order"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mail-orders",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mail-ordering",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mail-ordered",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mail-ordered",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mail-order (third-person singular simple present mail-orders, present participle mail-ordering, simple past and past participle mail-ordered)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "word": "mailorder"
    },
    {
      "word": "mail order"
    }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984 December 29, Maida Tilchen, “Paise For Local Distributors”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 4:",
          "text": "If you want to buy one of the albums reviewed in my article, or any women's music recording, it's not necessary to mail order them unless you can't get to a store. Thanks to Merle and other local distributors around the country, many stores carry women's music.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To buy or sell goods to be delivered by mail."
      ],
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        [
          "buy",
          "buy"
        ],
        [
          "sell",
          "sell"
        ],
        [
          "delivered",
          "delivered"
        ],
        [
          "mail",
          "mail"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mail-order"
}