billet-doux

noun

Definition of billet-douxnext
as in letter

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  1. letter
  2. open letter
  3. epistle
  4. memorandum
  5. missive
  6. mail
  7. postcard
  8. dispatch
Noun
  • For the most part, CVs are used by academics, scientists, lawyers, physicians and other professionals with letters after their name.
    Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 16 Nov. 2024
  • The information was central to what NSSF called its voter education program, which involved sending letters, postcards and later emails to persuade gun buyers to vote for the firearms industry’s preferred political candidates.
    Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2024
Definition of letter
Noun
  • In response to the most recent reports, a group of OB-GYNs told Texas officials and policymakers in an open letter that the two women — Josseli Barnica, 28, and Nevaeh Crain, 18 — should still be alive.
    Randi Richardson, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Early last year, when Starbucks tried to enforce its hybrid-work mandate, dozens of corporate workers signed an open letter pushing back.
    Daniela Sirtori, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of open letter
Noun
  • One of the earliest witnesses to the spread of Christianity, the codex features the first epistle of Peter and the Book of Jonah.
    Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Yet the novel evolved incrementally from public to private, epistle to narrative as the scope of the vision enlarged.
    David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
Definition of epistle
Noun
  • The Taiwan Creative Content Agency and Singapore’s public broadcast group MediaCorp, Tuesday, used the opening day of the Taiwan Creative Content Fest as the occasion to sign a memorandum of understanding.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Unfortunately, most agencies need memorandums of understanding (MOUs) to even get started on information sharing.
    Kalyn Sims, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of memorandum
Noun
  • The Venetians eventually called such missives lettere mercantile, or mercantile letters.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 7 Oct. 2024
  • These missives are of two kinds: dreams and videos.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of missive
Noun
  • Election Day isn't observed as a federal holiday, so post offices will be open and mail will be delivered.
    Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Though those efforts have failed, the Republican National Committee recently found success in its appeal challenging how Mississippi similarly accepts mail ballots received after Election Day.
    Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of mail
Noun
  • Activists have spent these final weeks making signs, hosting parties, knocking doors and mailing postcards.
    Bracey Harris, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2024
  • After beaming back dazzling postcard views of Jupiter’s giant red spot and Saturn’s shimmering rings, Voyager 2 hopscotched to Uranus and Neptune.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of postcard
Noun
  • This technology functions as a single access platform to view and analyze various sources of existing and proposed Seattle police data such as video and audio feeds, officer dispatch information and location, 911 calls, and police records.
    Spencer Pauley | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The 911 caller told dispatch that Salazar Reyes was shot inside the home, according to police.
    Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of dispatch
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