date stampn.
/ˈdeɪt ˌstamp/, U.S. /ˈdeɪt ˌstæmp/ A stamped mark indicating the date, esp. of the posting or receipt of a letter, parcel, bill, etc.; an adjustable stamp used to make such a mark.
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1818 Leigh's New Picture London x. 253 The date stamp; or, if there are two, that having the latest hour, shows also the time of day by which the letters were dispatched for delivery.
1879 A. Trollope John Caldigate III. x. 139 They got hold of some young man at the post-office who knew how to fix a date-stamp with a past date.
1908 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 102/1 As in cases of delay in transmission or delivery, when the date-stamp shows the cause to be late posting.
1909 Daily Chron. 2 July 5/5 Mr. Buxton has undertaken that the date-stamps shall not in future bear the name of the firms.
1930 C. Williams War in Heaven iii. 37 From date-stamp to waste-paper basket, from basket to files, from files to telephone Adrian pursued his investigation.
1973 Which? Mar. 96/1 Most of the date stamps will be ‘Sell by…’ dates.
2000 Sunday Gaz. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 3 Sept. e9/2 In the year 2004..many of the date stamps now used in area mail rooms and business offices will run out of year spaces.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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