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mail·man

(māl′măn′, -mən)

A man who carries and delivers mail. Also called postman.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

mailman

(ˈmeɪlˌmæn)

n, pl -men

(Professions) another name for postman

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

mail′ car`rier

a person employed to deliver mail.

[1780–90]

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Noun

mailman - a man who delivers the mail

letter carrier, mail carrier, postman, carrier

delivery boy, deliveryman, deliverer - someone employed to make deliveries

Translations

سَاعِي البَريدساعي البَريد

listonošpošťák

postbud

postinkantaja

poštar

bréfberi, póstur

postino

郵便配達人

우편집배원

poštar

brevbärare

บุรุษไปรษณีย์

postacı

nhân viên đưa thư

邮递员

mailman

[ˈmeɪlmæn] N (mailmen (pl)) (US) → cartero m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

mailman

[ˈmeɪlmæn] n (US) → facteur mmail merge n → publipostage mmail order n → vente f par correspondance
available by mail order → disponible à la vente par correspondancemail-order mail order [ˌmeɪlˈɔː^rdə^r] modif [business, service] → de vente par correspondancemail-order catalogue n → catalogue m de vente par correspondancemail order firm n → société f de vente par correspondancemail room n → service m courriermail server n (COMPUTING) → serveur m de messagerie électronique

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

mailman

[ˈmeɪlˌmæn] n (-men (pl)) (Am) → portalettere m inv, postino

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

mail

(meil) noun

letters, parcels etc by post. His secretary opens his mail.

verb

to send by post.

ˈmailbag noun

a bag for letters etc. The letters are put into mailbags and sent to London by train.

ˈmailbox noun

a postbox.

ˈmailman (-mӕn) noun

(American) a postman.

mailman

→ سَاعِي البَريد pošťák postbud Postbote ταχυδρόμος cartero postinkantaja facteur poštar postino 郵便配達人 우편집배원 postbode postbud listonosz carteiro почтальон brevbärare บุรุษไปรษณีย์ postacı nhân viên đưa thư 邮递员

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The mailman is to bring my trunk tomorrow; I just got homesick all at once, and came a day earlier.

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ISLAMABAD -- A new study has demonstrated that teenagers who get less than six hours of sleep a night might be at risk of being obese as compared to their peers who sleep more than eight hours.Researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Public Health showed that teenagers had a high risk of being obese by age 21 and its was 20 percent higher among 16-year-olds who slept less than six hours, said the study published in Journal of Pediatrics.Shakira F.

Sleepless teens likelier to get obese :Study

ISLAMABAD:A new study has demonstrated that teenagers who get less than six hours of sleep a night might be at risk of being obese as compared to their peers who sleep more than eight hours.Researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Public Health showed that teenagers had a high risk of being obese by age 21 and its was 20 percent higher among 16-year-olds who slept less than six hours, said the study published in Journal of Pediatrics.Shakira F.

Sleepless teens likelier to get obese :Study

The study, which will be carried out by the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in partnership with Qatar Foundation International (QFI), a US-based member of QF, was launched in the University's campus in New York.

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Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser meeting with the Dean of the Mailman School of Public Health Dr Linda P Fried to discuss the study.

Project to study mental health of Arab immigrants

The results of the study conducted by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Federal University of Sao Paulo showed that having experienced any traumatic event and low socioeconomic status were associated with an internalizing disorder such as depression and anxiety and an externalizing disorder including attention-deficit hyperactivity.