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antijunk

adj

Etymology

From anti- + junk.

  1. derived from *d₂luuŋ✻ — “boat”
  2. derived from joṅ
  3. derived from ꦗꦺꦴꦁ
  4. derived from jong
  5. derived from جُنْك
  6. borrowed from jonk
  7. borrowed from junco
  8. prefixed as antijunk — “anti + junk”

Definitions

  1. Opposing junk mail.

    • So many businesses are upset about the trend that a number of "fax directories" have taken an antijunk stand. […] As the unsolicited documents pile up, they are bound to inspire a new line of antijunk technology.
    • Although antijunk e-mail legislation has been proposed in the United States, the efforts would not address junk e-mail originating from e-mail systems located outside the United States or the misuse of open SMTP relays.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for antijunk. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA