Definition of "mail-order" []

• To buy or sell goods to be delivered by mail (verb)

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• "Female mail-order clerks at Siegel-Cooper Dry Goods Store formed the Bachelor Girls Social Club as a place where “we enjoy our independence and freedom.”"
• "Brownells, the gunsmith supply mail-order firm from Montezuma, Iowa, are among the good guys in our industry, and they do more than just talk about the need to nurture the next generation of shooters."
• "I only went to school through 10th grade, then finished up my diploma through a mail-order course."