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Registered letter

Register \Reg"is*ter\ (r[e^]j"[i^]s*t[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Registere (-t?rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Registering.] [Cf. F. regisrer, exregistrer, LL. registrare. See Register, n.]

  1. To enter in a register; to record formally and distinctly, as for future use or service.

  2. To enroll; to enter in a list.

    Such follow him as shall be registered.
    --Milton.

  3. (Securities) To enter the name of the owner of (a share of stock, a bond, or other security) in a register, or record book. A registered security is transferable only on the written assignment of the owner of record and on surrender of his bond, stock certificate, or the like.

    Registered letter, a letter, the address of which is, on payment of a special fee, registered in the post office and the transmission and delivery of which are attended to with particular care.

Usage examples of "registered letter".

Enclosed in the registered letter was a postcard-size photo graph of the F&uuml.

I pattered through the offices, the registered letter room, the money order room, the payroll room, the telegraph office.

Rose Cohen, and sent a registered letter to Blushing Lane with this box number.

And now I've got to get the Senator's signature for this registered letter, only you better send somebody for the bear right away.

There was a registered letter that they had not been able to deliver.

When Washington decided what to do with him, either a telegram or a registered letter would be sent to his leave address telling him where to go and when to be there.

She'll tear the bottoms-wiping certificate they give me down the centre and then into four pieces, stick them into an envelope and send it by registered letter to Mr & Mrs Philip Templeton.

Florian didn't get her registered letter today either--is that it?

And when she sent him a registered letter, it had came back marked REFUSED.

And in the midst of that domestic nightmare there arrived a registered letter from Italy, a country I had never seen.