Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Writing paper and envelopes.
- noun Writing materials and office supplies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The articles usually sold by stationers; the various materials employed in writing, such as paper, pens, pencils, and ink.
- Relating to writing, or consisting of writing-materials: as, stationery goods.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Belonging to, or sold by, a stationer.
- noun The articles usually sold by stationers, as paper, pens, ink, quills, blank books, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
writing materials ,envelopes ,office materials - adjective Common misspelling of
stationary .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun paper cut to an appropriate size for writing letters; usually with matching envelopes
Etymologies
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Examples
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I just remember that stationery is sold by a stationer, not a stationar.
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The way I began to remember the difference was that I thought of the “e” in stationery as representing “eraser”, which of course is a piece of stationery.
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He'll be ensuring that all Government offices use both sides of scrap paper, for example, which will save 170 million in stationery costs.
Archive 2009-01-01 Dungeekin 2009
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Between May and October, FBI agents prepared "blind" memoranda (typed on plain stationery, with no identifying letterhead or names of sender or recipient) on forty "unfriendly" witnesses under consideration; when these blind memoranda proved inadequate, Hoover relented and ordered Hood to share the photostats of twenty-five membership cards obtained through the FBI break-ins at Party headquarters. 15
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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Before i tell them for the umpteenth time i don't know where the stationery is now.
November 1st, 2005 mynxii 2005
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The best stationery is the stuff you write on and mail, don’t you agree?
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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The best stationery is the stuff you write on and mail, don’t you agree?
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If there’s nobody prescribing, the stationery is standard-issue. one friend there began collecting them to someday sell them on eBay as collectibles; not sure of the market for that, but more power to her.
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Intel., arranged for the theft of letterhead stationery from the Nigerien Embassy in Rome, that later appeared in W’s SoU speech.
Think Progress » BREAKING: CBS To Report Fitzgerald Will Make His Decision Known Tomorrow 2005
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Intel., arranged for the theft of letterhead stationery from the Nigerien Embassy in Rome, that later appeared in W’s SoU speech.
Think Progress » BREAKING: CBS To Report Fitzgerald Will Make His Decision Known Tomorrow 2005
sonofgroucho commented on the word stationery
I always have difficulty with stationary and stationery.
February 25, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word stationery
Stationary stays put. You write on stationery. :)
February 25, 2007
uselessness commented on the word stationery
That's handy. Never thought of it that way.
February 25, 2007
reesetee commented on the word stationery
I also think of a mountain peak, which is shaped like an "A." (Well, sort of.) Mountains don't move.
Funny how we come up with mnemonic devices for words like this.
February 25, 2007
Dan337 commented on the word stationery
January 1, 2011
fbharjo commented on the word stationery
What is written upon it can be moving!
February 12, 2012