mail order
/ˈmeɪl ˌɔr·dər/ n [U]Definition
› a way of shopping in which you send payment and a form showing the product you want to buy to the company who makes the product, and it sends the product to you: I often buy clothes by mail order.
(Definition of mail order n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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