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Definition of "mailroom" []

  • A room in which ingoing and outgoing mail is handled for a company or other organization. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "mailroom" in a sentence
  • "To think this grand tale starts off in a dingy little mailroom is noteworthy to me, because the story sweeps through so many settings of ever-growing grandeur, you have to really appreciate the scope of it all."
  • "She called the mailroom and made sure Warren would have all the training guides copied and bound by ten A.M. The client wasn’t due to arrive until eleven, but Kate never waited for the last minute to get anything done."
  • "Because of a possible link between the bacteria and the mailroom, which is where we have it located, we have taken the additional public step of looking very closely at the mail facilities that serve this location."