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postal order noun

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Definition

an official piece of paper with an amount of money written on it, which you post to someone who can then exchange it for the same amount of money at a post office

(Definition of postal order noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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