| 单词 | rural delivery |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrural delivery rural delivery n. the conveyance of letters, parcels, etc., in rural areas; a service providing this. ΚΠ 1843 Rep. Select Comm. Postage 178 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 564) VIII. 1 The rural delivery which goes on at present, and which has always gone on,..was..confounded with the smuggling of letters. 1905 Elem. School Teacher 5 301 Life in the country in the spring and summer has..few [hardships] for grown people in these days of telephones, electric cars, and rural delivery. 1958 Canad. Jrnl. Econ. & Polit. Sci. 24 245 The Post Office..was unwilling to extend rural delivery, except in the more densely settled parts of the west where roads were good. 1987 A. Theroux Adultery i. xii. 77 There is no bottle bill for recycling in New Hampshire, rural-delivery mail is always late, and mammoth..trucks are being driven everywhere. 2003 R. Geddes Saving Mail 140 They found that in 1989 the city delivery cost per piece was only 8 percent lower than rural delivery. < as lemmas |
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