FedEx

English

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Etymology

Blend of federal +‎ express; abbreviated from the company’s former name, Federal Express.

Pronunciation

  • Audio (US):(file)

Proper noun

FedEx

  1. (business) FedEx Corporation, a package express company.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • ⇒ Translingual: Fedexia

Verb

FedEx (third-person singular simple present FedExes, present participle FedExing, simple past and past participle FedExed)

  1. (transitive) To send a package or letter by FedEx, or a competitor.
    • 2011 March 10, Jim Holt, London Review of Books, page 11:
      Has he considered disconnecting his modem and Fedexing it to himself overnight, as some digital addicts say they have done?
    • 2025 June 27, Michael M. Grynbaum, “The Concorde-and-Caviar Era of Condé Nast, When Magazines Ruled the Earth”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
      Writers on assignment were encouraged to FedEx luggage to their destination, rather than schlep it on the plane.

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