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chain letter

n.
A letter, email, or other message sent to a number of people asking each recipient to send copies with the same request to a specified number of others. The circulation of a chain letter increases in geometrical progression as long as the instructions are followed by all recipients.
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chain letter

n
(Communications & Information) a letter, often with a request for and promise of money, that is sent to many people who add to or recopy it and send it on to others: illegal in many countries
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chain′ let`ter


n.
a letter sent to a number of people each of whom is asked to make and mail copies to others who are to do likewise.
[1905–1910]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.chain letter - a letter that is sent successively to several people
letter, missive - a written message addressed to a person or organization; "mailed an indignant letter to the editor"
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According to Snopes.com, a site that debunks urban legends, a 2003 chain email accused the American Civil Liberties Union of suing the federal government to remove crosses from Arlington.
We may have stopped forwarding them years ago, but the chain email never really died: It just migrated to Facebook, where its copy-paste offspring continue spreading rumors, superstitions and lies.
More info: john Gormley, chain Email: jgorinley@grantinc.com, Web: www.nyscc.org
The chain email circulating across the country this year is a tedious re-run of the same U.N.
The paper, titled The significance of letter position in word recognition (Rawlinson, 1967), eventually spawned this chain email:
Another 2000 chain email warned of toxic wax in foam containers for instant noodles, and even mentioned the death of an unfortunate noodle eater.
"The particular service referred to in the chain email used a recorded message which lasted a maximum of six minutes - making the total cost pounds 9.
(For the benefit of those uninitiated in the wiles of golden-hearted wantons, the semi-colon followed by a closing bracket is a smiling wink, while the "hehe" is a dirty laugh: never reply to these.) But it was an outraged reader's email that caught my eye: he had forwarded to me a perfectly convincing chain email that read as follows: "Recently, British Royal Marines in Iraq wrote to Starbucks because they wanted to let them know how much they liked their coffee, and to request that they send some of it to the troops there.
A computer expert checked the chain email and said it had been forwarded at least 10 times and may have been sent to multiple recipients.
The show of support, which had the family's blessing, came about after an anonymous chain email circulated throughout Portugal at the weekend.
Like talk radio, chain email creates an illusory world in which the people, finally given their say, speak in unison for the right.
We don't need to tell you that having your BFF chain email the entire freshman class about your crush would be a huge honking disaster--so don't even think about it!
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