Definition of postage-stamp
: suggesting a postage stamp in size : very small
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First Known Use of postage-stamp
1938
postage stamp
Definition of postage stamp
: a government adhesive stamp or imprinted stamp for use on mail as evidence of prepayment of postage
Recent Examples of postage stamp from the Web
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Director Jessica Hanna, set designer Pete Hickok and costume designer Allison Dillard somehow fit this big musical onto a postage stamp of a stage.
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Students and staff at Foxborough Regional Charter School have taken stamp collecting to a whole new level, recently completing a 10-year initiative to collect 11 million postage stamps — one for each person killed in the Holocaust.
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Director Jessica Hanna, set designer Pete Hickok and costume designer Allison Dillard somehow fit this big musical onto a postage stamp of a stage.
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Ten years ago, Foxborough Regional Charter School launched an effort to collect 11 million postage stamps to commemorate each life lost during the Holocaust.
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Director Jessica Hanna, set designer Pete Hickok and costume designer Allison Dillard somehow fit this big musical onto a postage stamp of a stage.
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Even the dessert menu is tiny, barely bigger than a postage stamp.
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In 2017, Toshiba developed a flexible, 5-centimeter PSC module with an efficiency of 10.5 per cent, which is a record for anything much bigger than a postage stamp—around a quarter of the theoretically possible levels.
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Ballots can be mailed back with a postage stamp or dropped off at a drop-box or a few accessible voting locations around Anchorage.
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First Known Use of postage stamp
1829
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