chain email
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- noun
- /tʃeɪn ˈiːmeɪl/
- Texting
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- Setting aside strategic errors by the Democrats (and there have been several in this fight), just look at how reform opponents have outgunned the White House using town halls, cable news, newspaper editorials, Freepers, Drudge, talk radio, and chain emails.
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But since the issue has emerged in the presidential campaign, we will instead return to the question of "In God We Trust" and coins, which we originally fact-checked in 2010 regarding a chain email.
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Frum is quite correct that there are a lot of chain emails and various websites that push these memes.
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To conclude the original point, those chain emails are wrong; Obama has not spent more than any president ever.
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Obama got accused of it because of one of those smutty, lying chain emails that people are so quick to fall for.
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He doubles down and sends us another chain email with equally specious ideas.
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But the chain email that continues to circulate was wrong in 2010 (except for the rare coins mistakenly minted with no inscriptions), and it remains wrong now.
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Fox's coverage of the news cannot be properly understood in isolation, but only in conjunction with the rest of that system—and especially the chain emails that do so much to shape the worldview of Fox viewers.
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She received a chain email asking her to forward it to ten friends to share good luck.
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After reading the chain email about a supposed cure, he decided to check the facts online.
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Many people ignore chain emails because they often contain misleading information.
Synonyms
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A message sent over the internet to another person
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A message that asks you to send it to many people, often as a scam
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A message that someone sends by computer to another person over the internet
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Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'chain' (a linked series) with 'e-mail' (an electronic message): a message that is circulated/forwarded in a chain. This noun–noun composition is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common metaphorical extension and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
The noun chain email comes from old paper chain letters that people copied and passed on to friends like links in a chain. That picture of messages joined together and needing to be 'forwarded' explains why chain email means an email asking you to send it to others, often as a 'scam' or to promise 'good luck' or threaten 'bad luck'.