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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stationery
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
use
▪ If you use continuous stationery, please remove sprocket margins and separate the sheets clearly into individual documents for each employee.
▪ The first four horizontal sections printed on a dot-matrix printer using continuous stationery.
▪ Stationery All organisations use printed stationery.
▪ They had even initially used somewhat similar stationery, although with an altered logo.
▪ Manilla A tough brown paper used to produce stationery and wrapping paper.
▪ You could also try to persuade them to use recycled stationery.
▪ Staff have been told to use stocks of old stationery as scrap paper.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And he knew her then, from the stationery shop on their street.
▪ Ann Bailey, who sells stationery at the store from which Revel buys his maps of Bleston.
▪ I took my stationery and reported for duty there.
▪ Onion skin a translucent lightweight paper used in air mail stationery.
▪ Rather, the answers are as close as your telephone, as close as your stationery and as close as your neighbor.
▪ The rest went on books, equipment, stationery and field trips.
▪ You could say the same for luggage and stationery.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stationery

Stationery \Sta"tion*er*y\ (-[e^]r*[y^]), n. The articles usually sold by stationers, as paper, pens, ink, quills, blank books, etc.

Stationery

Stationery \Sta"tion*er*y\, a. Belonging to, or sold by, a stationer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stationery

1727, from stationery wares (c.1680) "articles sold by a stationer," from stationer "seller of books and paper" (q.v.) + -y (1).

Wiktionary
stationery

a. (misspelling of stationary English) n. writing materials, envelopes, office materials

WordNet
stationery

n. paper cut to an appropriate size for writing letters; usually with matching envelopes [syn: letter paper]

Wikipedia
Stationery

Stationery is a mass noun referring to commercially manufactured writing materials, including cut paper, envelopes, writing implements, continuous stationery, and other office supplies. Stationery includes materials to be written on by hand (e.g., letter paper) or by equipment such as computer printers.

Usage examples of "stationery".

When the Office of Extraterritorial Intelligence was finally put into operation it had a total complement of fifteen men, six horses and some sub-standard stationery.

Natsume Shimada, hitherto manifested only as a careful signature, each letter individually formed, on creamy stiff stationery from the American Toyota Motor Sales headquarters in Torrance, California.

The high quality suggested a swanky hotel, so we began calling the snazzy hotels and asking if their stationery was coral pink.

Terrapin toy ads and pasted onto a sheet of official Terrapin kiddie stationery.

Negro businesspeople in Pittsburgh who owned a stationery and bookstore, a photography gallery, a loan company, a real estate company, and an insurance company.

Proposals are asked for the lowest bids for the articles of stationery required, the last form of proposal asking for bids upon seven black inks, one crimson, and one writing fluid, which are named.

The Board consists of twelve Commissioners, who have the general supervision of the schools, the disbursement of the moneys appropriated for the cause of education, the purchase of sites and the erection of new buildings, the purchase and distribution of books, stationery, fuel, lights, and all supplies needed by the schools.

Then I saw in one of those little miscellaneous shops--news, sweets, toys, stationery, belated Christmas tomfoolery, and so forth--an array of masks and noses.

Indeed, only this morning had he risen from his desk and driven down to the village to the Stationery Stop to buy a binder to hold his completed thesis, and on happy impulse he had visited Blossom Thyme and Sweet Surrender and finally, spontaneously, Lydia Spofford Antiques as well.

Paige toward the renovated brick front o the Fine Line stationery store.

Virgil cleared off the desk, taking loose papers, folders, and notebooks, scratchpads, and everything in the desk, including hotel stationery and the room-service menu, and dropped everything in the suitcase open on the floor.

The Carillon Motel stationery featured, for no discernible architectural reason, a medieval bell tower.

The biped remained stationery for another long moment and then dropped awkwardly forward, and began scooping up the grasses with its ridiculous forepaws, cramming great wads, roots, earth and all, into its huge maw.

Plus perfumed sealing waxes, stationery, lover’s ink scented with attar of roses, writing kits of Spanish leather, pen-holders of white sandelwood, caskets and chests of cedar-wood, pot-pourris and bowls of flower petals, brass incense holders, crystal flacons and cruses with stoppers of cut amber, scented gloves, handkerchiefs, sewing cushions filled with mace, and musk-sprinkled wallpaper that could fill a room with scent for more than a century.

I bought a thousand sheets of blank stationery and a thousand envelopes and had the art director of the ad agency where I was working design a logo and specify the type.