postage

Noun

Meaning

The price established by law to be paid for the conveyance of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

frank post mail stamp postage stamp franking mark postal porto communication freedom message correspondence shipping item
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Antonyms

pierce bar ban penetrate veto denial
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Hypernyms

charge item token

Phrases with the word

could fit on the back of a postage stamp could be written on the back of a postage stamp postage rate postage stamps size of a postage stamp postage meter system

Anagrams

Gestapo

Examples

The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow. Gracie Allen

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. Josh Billings

I hav studdyed mi own karakter, and mi own impulses for 39 years clussly, and i kant tell to day (to save a bet) whether i am an honest and trew man or not--if thare iz enny boddy who knows about this matter i wish they would address me a letter, enklosing a postage blister. Josh Billings

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. Abbie Hoffman

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job. Napoleon Hill

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. William Butler Yeats

Close letter words and terms

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