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mail

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mail2 S3 [transitive] especially American English
1 to send a letter or package to someone [= post British English]
mail something to somebody
The weekly newsletter is mailed to women all over the country.
2TD to send a document to someone using a computer [= email]
mail something to somebody
Can you mail it to me as an attachment?

mail something ↔ out

phrasal verb
to send letters, packages etc to a lot of people at the same time [= send out]:
The department has just mailed out 300,000 notices.
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