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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
covering letter
noun
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▪ Copies of the questionnaire and covering letter were sent to teachers individually.
▪ His covering letter explained that glass coffins were the wave of the future.
▪ In addition, the employer mentioned that Katie's enthusiasm for the job had not come across in her covering letter.
▪ It had been returned to him almost exactly as he had sent it, with no covering letter or word of explanation.
▪ It is normally circulated under covering letter and will incorporate a confidentiality agreement.
▪ It was noted in the covering letter which accompanied each questionnaire that the information given by respondents would be treated as confidential.
▪ Response sheets were sent out to these 200 with a covering letter from the agency concerned and 85 positive responses were received.
▪ Taking the direct approach requires planning, organisation, and a short, positive, action-demanding covering letter.
Wiktionary
covering letter

n. (context British English) A cover letter.

WordNet
covering letter

n. a letter sent along with other documents to provide additional information [syn: cover letter]

Usage examples of "covering letter".

He sent the typed revision to Washington via the Swiss pouch, with a handwritten covering letter marked Personal and Urgent, for the President.

The covering letter of course lavishly commends your circus, as you are aware.

I sent it off to the editor, Farnsworth Wright, without any covering letter, and waited to see what happened.

It came with a covering letter signed 'Mal,' and from the context, I feel fairly certain it's the original—.

One day the manuscript came in, addressed to me, no covering letter.

I sent Corbett straight home with your splendid news, as soon as I had dashed off my covering letter: you will have a Gazette to yourself, I am sure.

What is more, I know as certainly as if I had read it that his covering letter will be full of this fancied irregularity about the Cacafuego's command, this quibble over the officer's status.

The covering letter or what have you was all signed and then the file would go _back_ to Special Dispatch.

He moved across to the table, picked up the envelope of photographs, drew out the bundle with its covering letter, glanced at it, then replaced it in the envelope.

Morse), and a covering letter from the Manager of the High Street branch of Barclays Bank, dated 26th July.

An excellent report, incidentally, which is already on its way to Sir John Jervis with my covering letter.