英语词汇“dead-letter office”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. A letter which lies unclaimed for a certain time at a post-office, or which cannot be delivered through defect of address or other cause. Dead-letter Office: a department of a general post-office in which dead letters are examined, and returned to the writers, or destroyed after a certain time; c1880 officially styled Returned Letter Office.

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1703 in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1838) 3rd Ser. VII. 62 The other penny is lost in dead letters (remaining in the several Post Offices).

1737 London Mag. Jan. 54/1 John Jesse, Esq; Deputy Secretary of the Post-Office, succeeds the late Mr Williamson as Deputy Cashier; as does Mr John Barber, as Inspector of dead letters at the said Office.

1771 P. Parsons Newmarket II. 126 I sent to the Posthouse, and purchased a pacquet of dead letters.

1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee xvii, in Tales Fashionable Life VI. 423 The letter went coursing after you..I took it for granted that it found it's way to the dead-letter office.

1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation ii. viii. 307 With these exceptions, all packets above the weight of 16 oz. will be immediately forwarded to the Dead Letter Office.

1881 Standard 1 Nov. 2/2 The old name, ‘Dead Letter Office’, has had to be altered to the present appellation, ‘Returned Letter Office’, partly in consequence of the fatuity of the public, who would insist upon associating the title ‘Dead’ letter with the ‘land of the leal’.

单词	dead-letter office
释义	> as lemmas Dead-letter Office 2. A letter which lies unclaimed for a certain time at a post-office, or which cannot be delivered through defect of address or other cause. Dead-letter Office: a department of a general post-office in which dead letters are examined, and returned to the writers, or destroyed after a certain time; c1880 officially styled Returned Letter Office. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > letter > mail > [noun] > unclaimed letter dead letter1703 1703 in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1838) 3rd Ser. VII. 62 The other penny is lost in dead letters (remaining in the several Post Offices). 1737 London Mag. Jan. 54/1 John Jesse, Esq; Deputy Secretary of the Post-Office, succeeds the late Mr Williamson as Deputy Cashier; as does Mr John Barber, as Inspector of dead letters at the said Office. 1771 P. Parsons Newmarket II. 126 I sent to the Posthouse, and purchased a pacquet of dead letters. 1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee xvii, in Tales Fashionable Life VI. 423 The letter went coursing after you..I took it for granted that it found it's way to the dead-letter office. 1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation ii. viii. 307 With these exceptions, all packets above the weight of 16 oz. will be immediately forwarded to the Dead Letter Office. 1881 Standard 1 Nov. 2/2 The old name, ‘Dead Letter Office’, has had to be altered to the present appellation, ‘Returned Letter Office’, partly in consequence of the fatuity of the public, who would insist upon associating the title ‘Dead’ letter with the ‘land of the leal’. extracted from dead lettern. < as lemmas
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