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mailbox

 noun
     
Related topics: Household, Mail, Computers
mail‧box [countable] American English
1TCMDH a box, usually outside a house, where someone's letters are delivered or collected
2TCM a container where you post letters [= postbox British English]
3TD the part of a computer's memory where email messages are stored
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