postage meter

noun

: a machine that prints postal indicia on pieces of mail, records the amount of postage, and subtracts it from a total paid amount for which the machine has been set

Examples of postage meter in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Looking at the postage meter, it wasn’t exactly kept under lock and key. Margolis: Then the questions turned to, well, who at Lakeside Travel would have had access to the postage meter and who would have known the bank account number? —

Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022 If there’s always a cluster of people standing around the postage meter scratching their heads, print out clear directions and tape them to the machine. —

Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2023 If there's always a cluster of people standing around the postage meter scratching their heads, print out clear directions and tape them to the machine. —

Tatum Hunter, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2023 There was also the postage meter ID on the envelope. —

Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022 His father worked in sales at Pitney Bowes, the postage meter company. —

BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2019

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Word History

First Known Use

1914, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of postage meter was in 1914

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