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mail order

 noun
     
Related topics: Trade
mail order [uncountable]
BBT a method of buying and selling in which the buyer chooses goods at home and orders them from a company which sends them by post
by mail order
It is available by mail order from Green Life Products.
a mail order catalogue
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