dead letter office
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.66 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A channel of communications for which the recipient neither acknowledges nor acts upon any messages sent.
Example Sentences
- "There are 4201 letters lying in the Dead Letter Office, London, which contain property to the amount of $200,000."
- "The whole world is a Dead Letter Office. No one's listening to us. Our words vanish in the wind."
- "The agriculture department was merely a dead letter office until the present Minister gave it life and usefulness"