listserv

English

Alternative forms

• listserve

Etymology

See under listserve.

Noun

listserv (plural listservs)

1. (Internet) A type of electronic mailing list, allowing for distribution of email to many subscribers.
   • 2006, Mary E. Hawkesworth, Globalization and Feminist Activism (page 130)

     At subregional, regional, and global conferences, as well as through websites, listservs, cyberjournals, newsletters, and public reports and books, feminists from the South have articulated strategies to break down structural inequality […]

   • 2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff and Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents‎^[1]:

     Last month, the Forward reported, a former student at Mechon Hadar—a co-ed egalitarian yeshiva in New York—emailed the school's listserv with a plea for the institution to cut ties with [Leslie] Wexner in light of the unspooling allegations against [Jeffrey] Epstein.