English
Noun
junk mail countable and uncountable plural junk mails
Any mail or letters that are not welcome or solicited and typically sent in bulk ; especially mail of a commercial nature such as advertising circulars and form letters .
2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist [1] 407 , number 8837 , page 74 :In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
Translations
mail or letters that are not welcome or solicited
Chinese:
Mandarin: 垃圾郵件 ／ 垃圾邮件 (zh) ( lājī yóujiàn ) , 垃圾邮件 (zh) ( lājī yóujiàn, lèsè yóujiàn ) , 垃圾信 ( lājīxìn, lèsèxìn )
Finnish: roskaposti (fi)
French: pourriel (fr) m courrier indésirable (fr) m
German: Junk-Mail f unerwünschte Post f Junkmail (de) f Spammail f
Hebrew: דֹּאַר זֶבֶל (he) m ( dóar zével )
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Japanese: ジャンクメール ( jankumēru ) , 迷惑メール ( meiwaku-mēru )
Maori: mēra paraurehe
Russian: макулату́рная по́чта f ( makulatúrnaja póčta ) , почто́вая макулату́ра f ( počtóvaja makulatúra ) , нежела́тельная по́чта f ( neželátelʹnaja póčta ) , почто́вый му́сор m ( počtóvyj músor ) , джанк-ме́йл m ( džank-mɛ́jl )
Spanish: correo basura (es) m
Swedish: skräppost (sv)
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